davidp wrote: > > > What's the file's mode looks like? Which file system are they on? > > > As far as I can make out (I am a sadly inept newbie) the file system is NTFS. > Don't use NTFS with Wine. It's drivers are defective and do not provide required functionality. Also you most likely mounted it read-only. Or with root only write access. In all cases contact your distro support - this is not Wine problem(s).