On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 08:21:55AM -0400, John Drescher wrote: > > 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 I guessing that what he meant was that he had the following setup windows on /home/username/c_drive which is not the same as windows on /home/username/.wine/c_drive -- Darragh "Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool."