Different behaviour between "winefile" and "sudo winefile" commands

[mm.ff]

Hi,
I have installed the last stable version of Wine (7.0) on Ubuntu 20.04.1_x64.

I launched Wine using the command "winefile", I installed a Windows program and I run it: all was fine.
After closing winefile, I relaunched Wine using "sudo winefile": I found an empty Windows environment without the program I previously installed.

It seems that "winefile" and "sudo winefile" creates two independent Windows environments: why ?
Actually the Ubuntu user in both cases is always the same (sudo simply allows the same user to execute commands which require superuser permission).

Is there a way to delete one of the 2 Windows environments ?

Thanks a lot for your help.

[jkfloris]

When wine is run with the sudo command, a new wineprefix (fake Windows installation) is created in /root/.wine.
You can delete the wineprefix in /root/.wine with:

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sudo rm -r /root/.wine

For security reasons, it is not recommended to run wine as root/sudo. Usually this is not necessary either.
https://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#Should_I_ru ... as_root.3F