[Wine] Problem with wine creating folders on installs

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Sun Sep 13 09:14:12 CDT 2009


> i tried installing several games, perfect world international, jade dynasty, atlantica and installation goes through up until to a certain percentage where a window comes up with a "Failed to create C:\Program Files\Perfect World Entertainment\Perfect World International" (for example) message and when i click OK on that window, the whole progress regresses and the game is uninstalled.
>
> i have tried version 1.1.24 with the same result.  i think wine does not have authority to create those folders but i dont know why.
>

I seriously doubt that the problem is a permissions issue. It's more
likely that some unimplemented part of wine is causing the installer
to fail. Read the FAQ and post terminal output.

John



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