> One thing I wondered (in my general ignorance of such matters) is whether the problem was caused by a link I had set up in my home directory called "c_drive" which is actually a link to where I mount a windows hard drive when I need access to it from linux. I notice looking through the code in winetricks reference to a similarly named link - is there any possibility that this confused the script into deleting parts of my home directory when it was cleaning up after itself? > Is doubtful that it would remove anything other than what was on your windows drive. NEVER mount a real windows drive as drive_c. This will not help wine and it will end up breaking your windows install. John