http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32832
--- Comment #8 from Nikolay Sivov bunglehead@gmail.com 2013-01-30 04:20:09 CST --- (In reply to comment #7)
Two more notes:
- Would be nice if wine could define quotas for its drives, rather than setting
quotas for the whole homes of the users of wine. Or anyway introduce some system to avoid filling the user's home. Note that setting quotas for users, can avoid the machines from coming down if the wine 'drives' start taking too much space, but will not prevent data loss if the disk suddendly fills and the user has some other apps working. Unfortunately, many apps when trying to save to disk do not fail gracefully if the disk is full, but corrupt the whole document. So the risk of data loss is important.
That's should be done at system level, wine doesn't know about quotas.
- After re-starting with a new prefix, I had to reinstall applications. Many
apps that used to go to "Program Files" now go to "Program files (x86)" during install (I do not know if this is a change in the apps or in wine). However the result is that for some apps the help system breaks. I have made a few tests and it looks like it is the "()" in the path that creates issues. I have posted a separated bug for this as 32833.
That change in path means you're running win64-capable wine now, and 32bit applications are installed in (x86) subdir. That's how it works. To verify if that's really '(' that makes a difference you need to create some dir outside on 'Program Files', on C: root for example and try with it.