[Wine] Salvage old data?

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Sun Jul 24 14:23:07 CDT 2011


On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Beartooth <beartooth at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>        For years, I could install, and sometimes run, legacy private map
> software under Wine. But in order to connect it with my GPSs, I had to
> keep a separate hard drive with XP, and do that there.
>
>        Then came a brief time when I could also actually make my Garmin
> GPSs talk with the software under Wine. I transferred all my data to it,
> and gleefully wiped XP off my machine.
>
>        Then the connecting failed again, and has continued to. Recently,
> however, I've installed virtual XP under VirtualBox in Fedora Linux 14.
> Once again, my GPSs talk to my software. However, I deleted much of the
> old data off the GPSs to make space for new, and have it preserved only
> in the old Wine files.
>
>        Is there an easy way, (preferably with a web site to walk the
> subtechnoid through it!) to copy those old waypoints, routes, tracks, and
> even maps into the files of the virtual XP??
>

I think this is more of a question for the software vendor than wine.

John



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