[Wine] Wayward Directories

[L. Rahyen]

On Friday November 23 2007 03:21, L. Rahyen wrote:
> On Thursday November 22 2007 19:16, David Baron wrote:
> > On Thursday 22 November 2007, L. Rahyen wrote:
> > > On Thursday November 22 2007 18:33, David Baron wrote:
> > > > Seems that any program that has a default data directory, or
> > > > previously selected directory preserved, has the directory
> > > > duplicated/nested:
> > > >
> > > > That data is in c:\mystuff\mydata
> > > > It is shown as c:\mystuff\mydata\mydata
> > > >
> > > > The files appear and maybe can be read. Any attempt to write produces
> > > > an error (obviously, there is no such directory). Some programs will
> > > > crash/abort wine trying to navigate this stuff.
> > > >
> > > > This is a problem in recent wine (running Debian Sid). Programs ran
> > > > correctly before. Bug?
> > >
> > > 	Is there any program that shows this behavior? Is it freely
> > > downloadable? Personally, I have used 10+ Windows program in last few
> > > days with current git and didn't noticed such problem.
> >
> > abcmus is free and is doing this.
>
> 	I have tried it and cannot reproduce.
> 	Try this:
>
> mv ~/.wine{,.backup}
> wineprefixcreate
> wine setup.exe
> cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/AbcMus2/
> wine abcmus.exe
>
> 	Does this help? If yes then there is no bug in WINE.
> 	If you still have this problem can you give step-by-step way to reproduce
> it with AbcMus 2.0?

	BTW, accordingly to debian.org Debian Sid repository have very old WINE 
version (0.9.44). If problem persists you need to upgrade to at least 0.9.49.