oiaohm wrote: > emn8w8 acl the directory. I think is the simplest. I don't think they are smart enough to nuke that. acl(access control lists) group permissions also look left alone. According to the bug that won't help: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20643 The only thing I can think of - hack Wine and disable that functionality. See if that works.