On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:26 AM, helix <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The easiest way to fix this is to simply remove your ~/.wine directory. > > Wine will create a new one that's set up properly. > > Did that. Errors are gone now. Thanks. Yay! > > What do I have to do to stop users doing this. > > Maybe stating somewhere that files in ~/.wine/dosdevices/c > etc. are modified by Wine -- I didn't expect that. > I thought that these just set up some interfaces to have > the windows directories available to Wine, but I didn't expect Wine to write there. I'll keep that in mind, maybe we can make it clearer. > > Only solution to this is move wine to its own drive C and > > run a XP repair to remove the wine files from XP. > > Could you please give some hints which files those are? We have no idea. Try booting from an XP install disk and asking it to repair your existing installation. - Dan
