[Wine] problem with wineprefixcreate...

[James McKenzie]

doh123 wrote:
> James Mckenzie wrote:
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>> doh123:
>> What happens when you use the environment variable WINEPREFIX?
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> I said I figured it out in the previous post... its I was setting up in a folder that already existed that still had a .update-timestamp file in it.. which was throwing off and having it only partially make what needed to be made. Making it to a new folder, or deleting the .update-timestamp, fixes the problem.  I just didn't know that file existed until I started looking a lot closer.
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> I don;t get the love of hidden files with wine... like ~/.wine ... WHY??? why not ~/wine  ????and update-timestamp has to be hidden? oh well, at least I know why the prefix wouldn't create right, its just weird that it creates some things, but not everything.
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It's a UNIX thing.  I don't have a love for them either.  You should
take a look at the $HOME directory on LINUX.  All sorts of . directories
there as well.  I think there are a few on MacOSX but they are holdovers
from Free/OpenBSD.

James McKenzie