WINE Corrupting directory names on windows partition

Dan Kegel dank at kegel.com
Wed Mar 21 11:53:49 CST 2001


Uwe Bonnes wrote:
> : I've been running WINE on my Linux-Mandrake 7.2 box. I have a FAT32
> : windows 98 partition that I've directed WINE to use in wine.conf. I've been
> : noticing that
> : after running programs under wine, some of the directories on the windows
> : partition will have been renamed to names like "$!$!$!$!.dsk" or "$!$!$!
> : $!.prg". Needless to say, this interferes with windows' operation.
> : Has anyone else experienced this? What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance,
> 
> Look at old messgaes discussing this subject. In short your wine registry
> misses some values (did you adapt and install winedefaults?) and some MS
> program decides on this missing value to run amok.

Can we make Wine refuse to launch if these values are missing?
Seems like a good safety check.

- Dan





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