Unable to Delete anything from the C: Drive on Mac (Wine)

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Jacobn617
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Unable to Delete anything from the C: Drive on Mac (Wine)

Post by Jacobn617 »

I can't seem to access the C: Drive, It seems to be Not there.
The story is that i wanted to install "Black Mesa:Source" but i had installed the game first before I installed Steam. Now when I install Steam, It is unable to install due to the error message that the
"C:/Program Files/Steam" had to be empty. Now i have to Delete Black Mesa:Source but is unable to delete because the 'C:/Program Files/Steam' doesn't exist. I don't have to get into that folder, i just want to delete that specific folder so that i could finally play the game.
Plz Help. Anything helpful would be fine.
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Re: Unable to Delete anything from the C: Drive on Mac (Wine

Post by doh123 »

Windows uses drive letters... like C: ... most other OSes do not.

When the windows app says C: drive with Wine, its talking about a specific folder called "drive_c"

If you didn't change your WINEPREFIX any, then your drive_c will be at ~/.wine/drive_c

you can just type in
cd ~/.wine/drive_c
and you should see a Program Files folder and such and everything that would normally be in a C: drive.
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Re: Unable to Delete anything from the C: Drive on Mac (Wine

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Btw, i dont know why but ~/wine/ doesn't exist. :/ but somehow in the installer it shows up as that the fake C: drive still exists somewhere. I want to know how to find that place and delete Steam.
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Re: Unable to Delete anything from the C: Drive on Mac (Wine

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Jacobn617 wrote:Btw, i dont know why but ~/wine/ doesn't exist. :/ but somehow in the installer it shows up as that the fake C: drive still exists somewhere. I want to know how to find that place and delete Steam.
because its not ~/wine its ~/.wine
Unless you've went through special steps to show hidden files, Finder will not show you any files that start with a . because its considered hidden. You can see it in Terminal fine, or if you want to open a Finder window one time that can see it you can type in...
open ~/.wine
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