Wine doesn't write in the USB pendrive

André Luiz D. Queiroz · Mon Dec 26, 2011 11:43 am

Hi, Everybody.
I have tried to update Portable Firefox to the last version (v. 9) at home, in order I could get the latest one to use also at Office (where I don't have Administrator rights, neither can install Firefox 'natively'...); however, after reinstalling Wine 32 in my personal machine (running Mageia), Wine doesn't recognize the USB Pendrive ans 'writeable', then the update fails... How to set-up Wine accordingly to settle such issue?

jjmckenzie · Post by **jjmckenzie** » Mon Dec 26, 2011 12:17 pm

2011/12/26 André Luiz D. Queiroz <[email protected]>:

Hi, Everybody.
I have tried to update Portable Firefox to the last version (v. 9) at home, in order I could get the latest one to use also at
Office (where I don't have Administrator rights, neither can install Firefox 'natively'...); however, after reinstalling Wine 32 in
my personal machine (running Mageia), Wine doesn't recognize the USB Pendrive ans 'writeable', then the update fails...
How to set-up Wine accordingly to settle such issue?

One: Please check with your company's security folks. You may be
subjecting yourself to immediate termination (I know that would happen
where I work.)
Two: Insure that the USB device is mounting in Linux as read-write.
If it is mounting as read-only consult your Linux distribution for
additional assistance.
Three: Check what type of drive device Wine is mounting the device as
in winecfg. Make sure that Wine is seeing the drive as a
removable/hard drive and not a CDROM/DVD device.

You may have to plug in the device before starting Wine so that the
device will be identified properly and then unmount it after shutting
down Wine.

James

André Luiz D. Queiroz · Tue Dec 27, 2011 7:14 am

Thank you, James.
Don't worry about security policy at my work. Actually, Firefox is the current 'official' browser, but my machine is an old one where it's not 'officially' installed. I'm not subject to any threat for using portable applications.
I've checked the winecfg, and the USB device wasn't there. Ok, I set-up drive E: as the USB pendrive, with proper path ('/media/KINGSTON4GB'), but had to put it as hard drive, once I couldn't find a better option. Nevertheless, wine still can't see the device and/or Firefox directory as writeable...
When I took a look on it through Dolphin, the device is set as read & write for the user (myself).
And worse! Something got scrambled in my pendrive, my Windows machine at work isn't recognizing it!("seems to not be formatted!!")

Any help will be very appreciated !!
Regards!

jjmckenzie · Post by **jjmckenzie** » Tue Dec 27, 2011 9:36 am

2011/12/27 André Luiz D. Queiroz <[email protected]>:

Thank you, James.
Don't worry about security policy at my work. Actually, Firefox is the current 'official' browser, but my machine is an
old one where it's not 'officially' installed. I'm not subject to any threat for using portable applications.

Ok. We have been through this before with a different person.

I've checked the winecfg, and the USB device wasn't there. Ok, I set-up drive E: as the USB pendrive, with proper
path ('/media/KINGSTON4GB'), but had to put it as hard drive, once I couldn't find a better option. Nevertheless,
wine still can't see the device and/or Firefox directory as writeable...
When I took a look on it through Dolphin, the device is set as read & write for the user (myself).

Interesting as this should allow the device to be written to. Does
your user have rights to the files/directories from Linux?

And worse! Something got scrambled in my pendrive, my Windows machine at work isn't recognizing it!("seems to
not be formatted!!")

Can you read/write to it from Linux? If you can, it may be that the
drive's attributes have been corrupted. That is outside of the scope
of the Wine project to fix.

James

André Luiz D. Queiroz · Tue Dec 27, 2011 12:09 pm

Interesting as this should allow the device to be written to. Does
your user have rights to the files/directories from Linux?

I'm not sure about user's rights; nevertheless, this problem begun after I changed form a previous Wine64 installation to Wine32, and this just because I chose to install Playonlinux 32 bits from Magia repository (64 bits version isn't available there...), in order to install MS fonts properly (Firefox seemed to run normal over Wine, except for the fonts not installed...)

Can you read/write to it from Linux? If you can, it may be that the
drive's attributes have been corrupted. That is outside of the scope
of the Wine project to fix.

James

I know you can try to help me only about Wine. Thanks, anyway!
I'm looking for how to solve pendrive issue (which is far mor important to me) in another forums!
Regards!

Post by **dimesio** » Tue Dec 27, 2011 1:49 pm

André Luiz D. Queiroz wrote: I'm not sure about user's rights; nevertheless, this problem begun after I changed form a previous Wine64 installation to Wine32,

Did you delete the wineprefix and create a new one? Because 32 bit Wine cannot use a 64 bit wineprefix.

I chose to install Playonlinux 32 bits from Magia repository

PlayOnLinux is not supported here. If that's what you're using, ask for help in their forum.

When I took a look on it through Dolphin, the device is set as read & write for the user (myself).
And worse! Something got scrambled in my pendrive, my Windows machine at work isn't recognizing it!("seems to not be formatted!!")

Dolphin is buggy, particularly with writing large files, and I've had it corrupt the partition on a flash drive because of a failed write. Neither Windows nor Linux could read it, and I had to delete the partition and create a new one with gparted. I've switched back to using Konqueror as my file manager.

André Luiz D. Queiroz · Tue Dec 27, 2011 2:07 pm

Did you delete the wineprefix and create a new one? Because 32 bit Wine cannot use a 64 bit wineprefix.

I used the Package Manager of Mageia -- first, uninstalled Wine64 and then installed Wine32. I do not know about wineprefix...

PlayOnLinux is not supported here. If that's what you're using, ask for help in their forum.

I know this forum gives support only to Wine.

Dolphin is buggy, particularly with writing large files, and I've had it corrupt the partition on a flash drive because of a failed write. Neither Windows nor Linux could read it, and I had to delete the partition and create a new one with gparted. I've switched back to using Konqueror as my file manager.

Windows nor Linux reading the pendrive?! I hope my case be not so bad... Wish me luck!

Usurp · Post by **Usurp** » Tue Dec 27, 2011 4:28 pm

André Luiz D. Queiroz wrote:And worse! Something got scrambled in my pendrive, my Windows machine at work isn't recognizing it!("seems to not be formatted!!")

Any help will be very appreciated !!
Regards!

Don't worry about that, it probably means the pendrive has been formatted as ext2/ext3/ext4, which Windows doesn't recognize at all.

If you want to read it in Windows, you have to format it as FAT32 or NTFS.

doug · Post by **doug** » Tue Dec 27, 2011 4:54 pm

On 12/27/2011 04:28 PM, Usurp wrote:

André Luiz D. Queiroz wrote:
And worse! Something got scrambled in my pendrive, my Windows machine at work isn't recognizing it!("seems to not be formatted!!")

Any help will be very appreciated !!
Regards!
Don't worry about that, it probably means the pendrive has been formatted as ext2/ext3/ext4, which Windows doesn't recognize at all.

If you want to read it in Windows, you have to format it as FAT32 or NTFS.

There is a program that will let Windows read ext2 and 3, not sure about
4. Google it.