On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 08:08, Mike Hearn wrote:
Don't forget that My Documents is on c: by default.
Hmm, that's true. That should definitely be fixed. I don't even think we map the home directory in wineprefixcreate by default, do we? I think Marcus' patch adds that.
Also, reinstalling all apps just because you upgraded Wine seems a bit overkill, no?
Well, yeah, but over time I think it becomes necessary as the contents of the initial registry/config file change etc ... it's hard to know exactly what you need to do so reinstalling is the easiest way.
It sucks, I agree.
I shudder to mention it.. but Win2k supports mounting partitions as a directories under NTFS (like unix mount).
Does anyone know where that functionality resides?
So instead of just having: c: = ~/.wine/c_drive d: = /mnt/cdrom .....
You could have
c: = ~/.wine/c_drive c:\My Documents\ = ~/Documents c:\Program Files\ = ~/Windows Progs d: = /mnt/cdrom
Then wiping your ~/.wine would preserve your files, and with those apps that don't require registry settings would just work without a reinstall (Pegasus Mail is a good example).
Rick