after upgrading linux I copied my game folders I had backed up from wine 1.3 on mint 12 into the new wine directory, but pylotro coulde not auto-locate the game directories. after much frustration I copied my turbine folder to a different directory that wasn't hidden and directed pylotro there. and it seemed to work, til it got stuck:

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