On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 05:33, Bakshara<wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Gert van den Berg, > > >> You're running it as the wrong user. The above deleted root's default >> WINEPREFIX. > > I am the only user. > > What is "$HOME?" How do I get to it? > $ echo $HOME http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Guide_to_Unix/Environment_Variables > There are currently six "WINEPREFIX" files: three are "shell scrip", two are "Troff documents", and one is "Gzip archive." > wineprefixcreate > wineprefixcreate.1.gz > wineprefixcreate.in > wineprefixcreate.in > wineprefixcreate.man.in > wineprefixcreate.man.in > These are related to your Wine installation not the Wine settings / data files that I commented on If you want to remove / upgrade Wine itself: How did you install Wine? If it was not from source, your distribution's documentation is probably the place to start.