win98 trashed & !$!$ files

[g.patel at wanadoo.fr]

On 22 May 2001 15:56:05 GMT, Walter Polkosnik
<walt at sal.physics.ucsb.edu> wrote:

>
>Wine (20000213-1) has apparently trashed my win98. Many files seemed to
>have been moved to directories named !$!$!$!$.*. Windows starts, but
>almost nothing works since programs have been moved to these to these
>directories. Any help in fixing the situation will be greatly appreciated.

Basically the idea is that these directories have not changed, only
an  app has renamed them; so the trick is to rename them (this is from
the answers to quite a few similar posts, I have never seen the
problem myself). This problem has prompted the following part
of the README :

You should backup all your important files that you give Wine access
to, or use a special Wine copy of them, as there have been some cases
of users reporting file corruption. Do NOT run Explorer, for instance,
if you don't have a proper backup, as it renames/cripples several
directories sometimes.

So if you want to run Explorer or Internet explorer for example, mount
your fat partition read only.

Gerard