[Wine] Re: Caution when deleting .wine ...

vitamin wineforum-user at winehq.org
Thu Apr 17 09:00:19 CDT 2008


David Shaw wrote:
> John Drescher wrote:
> 
> > 
> > > At the risk of getting flamed, you yourself have often told people to 'rm
> > > -rf ~/.wine'
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > Doing that will not follow symlinks.
> > 
> > John
> > 
> 
> Surely dragging and dropping files into the trash or simply deleting 
> them in nautilus shouldn't follow symlinks either, which, so far as I 
> can tell, was what was happening with the reported bug  :-)
> 
> I was merely trying to point out that the idea "to move files into trash 
> instead of letting Wine to safely remove them?" is one that is fairly 
> regularly suggested here.
> 
> David Shaw

I was referring to something else. About a year or so ago Wine started to use Trash to remove files to. Before it was just removing them.







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