> I need to know *what* files to copy, and especially whether > anything in any of them might be the cause of my lost ability to > get the GPSs to talk to the software. > Ask Garmin that. > > I do have one clue whether the loss of this ability came from > something in Wine, or in Garmin, or what. That is that the new installs > on the virtual XP under VirtualBox came from the exact same CDs and DVDs > as the ones that so soon failed under Wine. (That's why it seems good > sense to ask here.) > > For instance, if I make it a point *not* to copy any .exe files, > am I then safe?? How about .ini? .sys? .Ink? .wix? > > How about folders that have one or more .exe files several levels > down? Ditto for scripts? > > Is there any way, especially any canonical way, to find out why a > program that once worked under Wine ceases to work? Or to specify that > any .zzz file (for some zzz), and only such files, can be map data, and > therefore harmless at worst? > Updates to wine could have broken your application. > I don't think it could be file corruption, because I tried the > same things on at least four PCs. All worked at first, and all soon > ceased to. (I'm the only user in this house of GPS software, and can't > use it on more than one machine at a time. Garmin understood that when I > asked.) > When you talked to them did you ask them how to copy the data? The wine user forum is not the place to ask how to copy / export / import data from applications to other installs of the same application. John
