[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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