http://bugs.winehq.com/show_bug.cgi?id=923
Summary: WINE DESTROYED MY SYSTEM! Product: Wine Version: 20020411 Platform: PC OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: critical Priority: P1 Component: wine-misc AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.com ReportedBy: pharouff@comcast.net
I've had wine on my Red Hat 7.2 system for a while. I finally got around to experimenting with it last weekend (7/21). I used Wine Configuration in KDE to set up my account and tried to install Cooper Luxicon lighting design software. I could get it to install in start up, but it locks up at the open file screen.
I haven't been in Windows all week.
This evening (7/28) I booted up in Windows to get some business work done and discovered that Wine had deleted my entire C:\Program Files directory and replaced it with what appear to be Wine DLLs. I've never seen these files before in this directory.
Now my C:\Program Files directory only contains: !$!$!$!$.cfr System ado msadc OLE DB Common Files !$!$!$!$.msr dao2535.tlb dao350.dll odbc Data Sources System ado $!$!data.ie5 msadc WindowsUpdate Skins Visualizations
Where are all of my programs files? Everything's gone!
What kind of demented programmer would do this without warning the user and giving him a chance to back up the files somewhere else?
I'm really f****d. I have no way of restoring half of those programs and I can't get my work done. I was depending on being able to finish a project that's due tomorrow. I can lose my job over this!
Needless to say, I'm not going to trust Codeweavers software again.
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