[Bug 923] New: - WINE DESTROYED MY SYSTEM!

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http://bugs.winehq.com/show_bug.cgi?id=923

           Summary: WINE DESTROYED MY SYSTEM!
           Product: Wine
           Version: 20020411
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: critical
          Priority: P1
         Component: wine-misc
        AssignedTo: wine-bugs at winehq.com
        ReportedBy: pharouff at comcast.net


I've had wine on my Red Hat 7.2 system for a while. I finally got around to   
experimenting with it last weekend (7/21). I used Wine Configuration in KDE to 
set up my account and tried to install Cooper Luxicon lighting design software. 
I could get it to install in start up, but it locks up at the open file screen. 
 
I haven't been in Windows all week. 
 
This evening (7/28) I booted up in Windows to get some business work done and   
discovered that Wine had deleted my entire C:\Program Files directory and   
replaced it with what appear to be Wine DLLs. I've never seen these files before  
in this directory.  
  
Now my C:\Program Files directory only contains:  
     !$!$!$!$.cfr  
          System  
               ado  
               msadc  
               OLE  
               DB  
     Common Files  
          !$!$!$!$.msr  
               dao2535.tlb  
               dao350.dll  
          odbc  
               Data Sources  
          System  
               ado  
               $!$!data.ie5  
               msadc  
     WindowsUpdate  
          Skins  
          Visualizations  
  
Where are all of my programs files? Everything's gone! 
  
What kind of demented programmer would do this without warning the user and   
giving him a chance to back up the files somewhere else?   
   
I'm really f****d. I have no way of restoring half of those programs and I can't  
get my work done. I was depending on being able to finish a project that's due 
tomorrow. I can lose my job over this! 
 
Needless to say, I'm not going to trust Codeweavers software again.

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