[Wine] finding or creating ~/.wine folder (Snow Leopard problem)

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Sun Mar 28 20:05:46 CDT 2010


hobbsilla wrote:
> Here is more info:
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> 1. So no, I can not drag the Winetest file that I created earlier into my home directory, if I go one level down in hierachy I can however, if I put it in Photos, Music, Movies etc it works for whatever reason but if I go one level up it doesn't.
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Interesting that you cannot create a folder in your $HOME directory. 
This is NOT normal for any version of MacOSX from what I know.  Again,
I'm using Leopard and this version may allow this, but if this were a
major problem, there would be many complaints here about the inability
to create the .wine directory.
> 2. A ~/Wine and ~/Wine Files folder were already present on my desktop from yesterday when I had Winebottler combo. I removed Winebottler combo and attempted to drag these two folders into my Trashbin. It will delete the contents in these two folders but won't delete the folders themselves.
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Again, something is NOT right.  Any user created directory should be
deletable.  Can you do the same thing that I asked you to do for your
user directory.  I'm hoping that these directories are not owned by
root:admin as they should NOT be.  If they are, please file a bug report
at the WineBottler trac site as these were created by WineBottler.  You
may also try deleting them using the WineBottler configuration application.
> 3. I contacted David Baumgold who wrote the tutorial I followed. 
> A. He recommended that I do a symlink but I'm not a terminal junkie so I've been researching the 20 minutes on how to do that. 
> B. I did however use the $WINEPREFIX=$HOME/Wine\ Files wine winecfg in my terminal and what seemed like wine working, a configure window popped up, and content was added to the Wine Files folder in my home directory. However when I got to type $wine winecfg or $wine $applicationname.exe I still get that same error message about ~/.wine directory not existing.
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This is true.  You have to set the WINEPREFIX variable anytime you want
to use Wine or you can set it in the terminal for that session by typing in:

export WINEPREFIX=<Path to wine files>

i.e.  Wine files are in $HOME/Wine

export WINEPREFIX=$HOME/Wine


> 4. Once I submit this message I will go and try doing this as a Guest user.
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This may work, as the Guest user has a different file environment.

James McKenzie




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