Wine Started Using UID Instead of User

[TommyC]

Hello,

So I'm wondering what might have caused this because I haven't touched wine:

I start any program and instead of using my ~/.wine/drive_c/users/<username> directory it makes a new directory where it replaces "username" with the UID of the user.

It wasn't really a problem since I just made the directory unwriteable, but it was a curious issue as I had thought I lost some things.

Is there a reason why wine might do this?

Cheers.
=== EDIT ===

So I did some further testing and something overwrote (and continues to overwrite when I launch a program) some parts of user.reg by replacing users\\<username> users\\<uid>.

It does not replace all the settings.

I'm not sure how to find the culprit and according to userdef.reg they're all %USERPROFILE% so it shouldn't be replaced with my UID for any reason as far as I am aware.

[dimesio]

Does it happen in a clean wineprefix?

[TommyC]

Hi dimesio,

Yes it does happen with a clean wineprefix (sorry for the long delay in responses, I had to re-install into the new wine prefix).

Symlinking the user's directory to the UID doesn't seem to pose a problem.

Also, I am using wine version 2.6.