[Bug 51982] New: When installing Kobo for Desktop, user data meant for AppData\Local\Kobo is instead placed inside an arbitrary folder of the program's installation.

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51982

            Bug ID: 51982
           Summary: When installing Kobo for Desktop, user data meant for
                    AppData\Local\Kobo is instead placed inside an
                    arbitrary folder of the program's installation.
           Product: Wine
           Version: 6.16
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: trivial
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: wine-bugs at winehq.org
          Reporter: vorxborx at gmail.com
      Distribution: ---

Created attachment 70967
  --> https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=70967
Wine user registry

Disclaimer: This is more of a curiosity than an issue, but I believe it may be
linked to issues with other software.

Summary:

After installing Kobo Desktop
(https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=34526 see latest
test result for information on how to download the installer correctly)
everything worked correctly, and the program is fully functional (fantastic
job!).

When inspecting the program's files, attempting to find the user data, I
expected to find it at:
"~/.wine/drive_c/users/alex/AppData/Local/Kobo/Kobo Desktop Edition" which is
where it is on a native Windows installation.
However, this folder may exist, but is empty (no hidden files either).
Upon inspection, the contents of this folder instead ended up inside:
"~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Kobo/fonts/" along with the font files
expected there.

Steps to reproduce:

- download the installer.
- install the program.
- inspect the folder it was installed to.


The program works fine and manages to find and write to the folder where the
user data now is. I assume something went slightly wrong during installation,
so I have included terminal logs on that process.
I tested this on Manjaro (Wine 6.16) and KDE Neon Unstable (Wine 6.0.2) with
identical results.

The program in question is proprietary, so there isn't an option to inspect the
way it loads the location of these files, or determines the path in the first
place.

I have included the user.reg, and the two installation logs, though I couldn't
find anything particularly noteworthy myself.


Thank you,
Alex

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