Change Wine default directory

[Zymus]

Ok, So the default directory for win is ~/.wine/drive_c/. I have a separate partition on my HDD that I want to be my "Windows" directory(in the future I will add a dual boot of XP, but that's for a later date) and I was wondering how to change the working directory for wine from ~/.wine/drive_c to My other partition. How would I go about doing this?

[doctordruidphd]

Re: Change Wine default directory

Two ways to approach this:

One way is to move your .wine directory to wherever you want it, then make a symbolic link from your ~/.wine to wherever you put it. For example, let's say you move it to /media/games
Then use the following command from your home directory:

ln -s /media/games/.wine .wine

Another way to do it is to move the .wine directory wherever you want, then specify a WINEPREFIX when you start a wine program, like this:

env WINEPREFIX=/media/games/.wine wine program

In both cases be sure you have the relevant read/write/execute permissions for wherever you are moving .wine to.

[Zymus]

Re: Change Wine default directory

How would I ensure that I had read/write/etc privileges?

[doctordruidphd]

Re: Change Wine default directory

If you can move your .wine directory to where you want it without using sudo, you're probably OK.

[Zymus]

Re: Change Wine default directory

Ok, when I do that, The .wine directory that shows up in my home directory doesn't give me permissions for anything. Only root.

[doctordruidphd]

Re: Change Wine default directory

I'm not sure what you are doing. Did you make the symbolic link? If so, root should have nothing to do with it. If you are using the WINEPREFIX method, there should be no ~/.wine directory.

You should never run wine as root; it isn't designed for that, and it is guaranteed to mess up your .wine directory if you do.

[Zymus]

Re: Change Wine default directory

Ya, id did exactly what you told me, and now it says "/home/zyle" is not owned by you. refusing to create configuration file" whenever i try to run wine.

[vinnywright]

Re: Change Wine default directory

Ya, id did exactly what you told me, and now it says "/home/zyle" is not owned by you. refusing to create configuration file" whenever i try to run wine.

doctordruidphd gave you two different methods of doing this please say witch method you used.!!!
and how you whent about it.

VINNY

[Zymus]

Re: Change Wine default directory

I used the ln -s /media/C/.wine .wine from ~

[doctordruidphd]

Re: Change Wine default directory

I am assuming that your home directory is /home/zyle
is that correct?

There is a problem somewhere with file permissions.
Are you able to read and write files in your home directory?

Please try the following commands and post their results:

ls -ald ~/.wi*
ls -ald /media/C/.wi*