Windows <username>\ Application Data settings under Wi

alstone · Post by **alstone** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 7:45 am

Hi,

Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron (Desktop)
Wine 1.1.5

Some Windows applications have user settings in their corresponding

c:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\<application> folder.

What's the equivalent of this under Wine ( in order to copy the necessary files
from my Windows installation to Wine/Ubuntu ) ?

Thanks & best regards,
Alan

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 8:54 am

alstone wrote:Some Windows applications have user settings in their corresponding

c:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\<application> folder.

What's the equivalent of this under Wine ( in order to copy the necessary files
from my Windows installation to Wine/Ubuntu ) ?

If the path exists you can run this:

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winepath -u "c:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\<application>"

Of course replace <username> and <application>.[/code]

alstone · Post by **alstone** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:28 am

Thanks a lot for your prompt response.

After giving your answer some further thought, I wonder...

How do you proceed for a Windows application which hasn't first been installed in Windows ( or because you dumped Windows ) but installed directly under Wine/Linux and which, for example, when adding an add-on to the application requires to (manually) copy some files to the c:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\<application> folder ?

Best,
Alan

loltsy · Post by **loltsy** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:35 am

What you're looking for is probably in c:\windows\profiles\<username>\Application Data

Wine seems to still be using the old win95/98/me location for user profiles even though XP has been the default for a while.

alstone · Post by **alstone** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:51 am

loltsy wrote:What you're looking for is probably in c:\windows\profiles\<username>\Application Data

Wine seems to still be using the old win95/98/me location for user profiles even though XP has been the default for a while.

I prefer this solution. Thanks.

This begets the question...

How do you "undo" the winepath -u "c:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\<application>" instruction ?

Best,
Alan

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 11:47 am

loltsy wrote:What you're looking for is probably in c:\windows\profiles\<username>\Application Data

Wine seems to still be using the old win95/98/me location for user profiles even though XP has been the default for a while.

It's not win9x. It's winNT4.0 notation

alstone wrote:How do you "undo" the winepath -u "c:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\<application>" instruction ?

There is nothing to undo. It's a path translation program that translates windows path into unix and wise-versa.

Gert van den Berg · Post by **Gert van den Berg** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 12:41 pm

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 2:45 PM, alstone <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi,

Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron (Desktop)
Wine 1.1.5

Some Windows applications have user settings in their corresponding

c:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\<application> folder.

What's the equivalent of this under Wine ( in order to copy the necessary files
from my Windows installation to Wine/Ubuntu ) ?

The Application Data folder is saved in the APPDATA environment variable.

You can see its value by running: (a weird combination of wine and Unix

)
wine cmd /c set|grep APPDATA

The output you recieve should look like this:
APPDATA=C:\windows\profiles\mohag\Application Data
LOCALAPPDATA=C:\windows\profiles\mohag\Local Settings\Application Data

The physical folder would then be
~/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/`whoami`/Application" "Data

Gert van den Berg