[Wine] Silly answers to silly questions for a silly Noob.

hendrik at topoi.pooq.com hendrik at topoi.pooq.com
Sun Sep 28 06:55:36 CDT 2008


On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 07:18:09PM -0700, James McKenzie wrote:
> James Huk wrote:
> > 2008/9/23 JDorfler <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
> >
> >   
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> >> I disagree here - you can try running your apps first - "most" will work
> >>     
> > that way (especially games) - if they won't - reinstall them. Reinstalling
> > everything you want to use may lead to unnecessary disk usage - beside, if
> > something works without re installation - then what's the point?
> >   
> If it works?  If you do not install some programs, they do NOT work
> properly in Wine as the installer writes information to the current
> registry.   Also, I have several working and not so working Wine
> prefixes on my system.

I've found it useful to place my use data elsewhere and use a symbolic 
limk to it.  That way, if things go wrong with my wine and I screw up 
.wine (or whatever prefix I'm using), I can delete it, reinstall, and my 
data will still be easy to find,

  Yes, this does take up space, but you CAN use
> the same area for user data, which in most cases is the largest use of
> space on any hard drive I've ever seen.  I did not state this in my
> first reply and that was an oversight.  Please be aware that Linux and
> subsequently, Wine, have problems writing files into NTFS directories.
> 
> James McKenzie
> 
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