What incredible cruft have I accumulated? I'm running wine-1.1.38-1.fc12.i686 under Fedora 12 on three PCs and two laptops, some of whose predecessors go all the way back to RedHat7 and whatever wine it had. I do so, and have done, solely in order to run certain suites of proprietary map software in conjunction with Garmin GPSs, which I find substantially more user friendly, alas!, than any of the umpteen linux- native alternatives that I've been checking out every couple of years since 1998. (I don't take wine online at all, except for occasionally trying to get Garmin's webupdater to work.) For years I couldn't install these suites, not under wine nor yet under crossover office; then they began to install but not launch, or launch but not run. Nowadays two of the four suites I have (Garmin's own, and one from what was Maptech when I got it) do launch and even run normally. (The ones that don't are from Delorme and National Geographic.) It is still a toss-up whether a given install on a given machine will actually talk to any GPS on a given day, though the odds are distinctly better with the PCs than with the laptops. Once wine could at least launch the two suites, and especially since it first became able, however spottily, to talk to my GPSs, I began including it among the things I routinely copy back and forth between machines whenever I do a fresh install. The waypoints I already have, if only by copying them from some older install, are of considerable use. So some things may well have gotten copied and recopied, and not always to the same location as they should have. But matters seem now to've gotten out of hand. A look at the Properties for /home/btth/.wine/drive_c on one machine shows 11,725 items, totaling 6.1 GB -- while /home/btth/.wine/ dosdevices on the same machine has 391,165 items, totaling 30.5 GB (some contents unreadable). Also, if I look at /home/btth/.wine/drive-c and /home/btth/.wine/ c:, their contents appear to be identical -- in this case, I *think*, because I'm looking at the same thing from different angles. Is that right, at least? It would be a comfort not to be mistaken at all points, as Gandalf assures Gimli in the eaves of Fangorn. Be that as it may, there has to be a lot of something in my .wine folder that it would be better off without. Is there any straightforward way to seek and destroy that, without endangering the data I have added? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.
