I managed to break my Wine Directory Structure

aliendude5300 · Post by **aliendude5300** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 4:17 pm

While trying to copy some files over from the retail version of Windows XP Professional in an attempt to make more stuff work under Wine, which failed miserably, I screwed up the directory of my virtual C drive. Is there a way to completely delete the C drive and all files from it, and reset the directory structure to default? Many applications dont function properly any more...

Neo-drexx · Post by **Neo-drexx** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 4:18 pm

"rm -r .wine" in your home folder. than just start wine again....

aliendude5300 · Post by **aliendude5300** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 4:31 pm

Thanks! It appears to have worked.

aliendude5300 · Post by **aliendude5300** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 4:44 pm

Hmm... while Wine still works, and everything seems to be restored to it's default condition, the programs menu is still the way it was before I deleted the wine files... how can I force this menu to be recreated?

jorl17 · Post by **jorl17** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 6:09 pm

Hi. I don't really think you can 'make' wine do it. Use a menu editor to edit it.

aliendude5300 · Post by **aliendude5300** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 6:15 pm

Where can I get a menu editor? I manually edited the start menu directories under the c drive, and they weren't updated when i open the application menu. there should be a way to have wine recache the changes.

James Mckenzie · Post by **James Mckenzie** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 6:27 pm

aliendude5300 <[email protected]> wrote on March 14th:

Where can I get a menu editor? I manually edited the start menu directories under the c drive, and they weren't updated when i open the application menu. there should be a way to have wine recache the changes.

Your Linux distribution comes with one. You should learn how to use it and then remove all of the Wine entries. Wine does not and cannot do this for you.

James McKenzie

jorl17 · Post by **jorl17** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 6:49 am

aliendude5300 wrote:Where can I get a menu editor? I manually edited the start menu directories under the c drive, and they weren't updated when i open the application menu. there should be a way to have wine recache the changes.

If you're on Ubuntu, go to "System->Preferences->Main Menu" or something similar and play around with it.

I personally don't think Wine should do it, but I'm a "each software does only one and one thing, without any interaction" fanboy.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 1:31 pm

aliendude5300 wrote:Hmm... while Wine still works, and everything seems to be restored to it's default condition, the programs menu is still the way it was before I deleted the wine files... how can I force this menu to be recreated?

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-9893ae5 ... af2e69b391