http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31026
--- Comment #1 from Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com 2012-06-26 12:46:17 CDT --- It seems to me that the bug is that ~/.wine/.update-timestamp is followed as a symlink if ~/.wine doesn't exist. Attempting to salvage partial configurations like that seems like a recipe for disaster.