[Wine] Re: Using Wine with Windows data

[vitamin]

Alistair wrote:
> 
> > You could map the windows drive in winecfg for easy access.
> 
> Hmm thanks for those comments. Missed the point that what it refers to is using the Windows "C:" drive.
> I have done the above, on a non "C:" drive and thats where the problem lies it works for current session then fails to be able to open the mapped drives on the ensuing sessions.
> Is there any information that can help me with this issue please?
> I'm not worried about data corruption as I use a very regular backup regime.


If you mean that your mapping goes away, then it's a long know problem. You should put CD/DVD disc(s) into all drives you have before running winecfg. It doesn't see drives reserved for cdroms and tries to re-map them.