Winecfg Desktop Integration Resetting.

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Edward256
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Winecfg Desktop Integration Resetting.

Post by Edward256 »

Hello.
Using Wine Staging 3.6 and I do my settings, but sometimes some settings get forgotten.
One of these settings is under Desktop Integration where I set the "My Documents" to custom locations. It seems like every time I come back to playing a Windows game (after a reboot) I notice I'm lacking ny saves. I check the winecfg and turns out that all my custom locations have reverted to the default (/home/edward/Documents instead of /home/edward/MYDOCS). Why does this happen?

/Edward
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Bob Wya
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Re: Winecfg Desktop Integration Resetting.

Post by Bob Wya »

@Edward

This is a known Wine bug.
See: WineHQ Bug 22974 - "Shell folders" settings are reset after each wine update.

To workaround this you can use part of the:

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winetricks sandbox
verb, namely:

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wine regedit /d 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\Namespace\{9D20AAE8-0625-44B0-9CA7-71889C2254D9}'
echo disable > "${WINEPREFIX:-${HOME}/.wine}/.update-timestamp"
Bob
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