[Wine] Wayward Directories

[David Baron]

On Friday 23 November 2007, wine-users-request at winehq.org 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?

Moveing the .wine and recreating it did solve the directories problem
setup.exe does not work but winecfg does.

Some programs are being run off the windows partitions.
Some were installed in wine specifically.

While some programs run fine, others cannot find stuff like mfc42.dll and such 
which should be ubitquitous. Problem is that they look on c:
\\windows\\system32 or such. My windows is would be \\win98\\system... The 
only one I have is on the c:\win98\system. These are not found 
on .wine/drive_c/windows.

Also orignally, wine used both its own registry and the one on the windows 
drive (read only). This was apparently carried over but moving that .wine 
took this away. Some registrations were read from here but it probably made 
more trouble than this was worth.