wine users - Apr 2008 - Caution when deleting .wine ...

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/188361
says that at least some version of Nautilus followed
symlinks when deleting.  Whoopsie!

Dan Kegel wrote:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/188361
> says that at least some version of Nautilus followed
> symlinks when deleting.  Whoopsie!

So who's idea was is to move files into trash instead of letting Wine to
safely remove them?  [Laughing]

Windows does not have symlink files, just .lnk ones, i dont know if there are
some of them in other parts of .wine directory

David Shaw wrote:
> John Drescher wrote:
> 
> > 
> > > At the risk of getting flamed, you yourself have often told
people to 'rm
> > > -rf ~/.wine'
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > Doing that will not follow symlinks.
> > 
> > John
> > 
> 
> Surely dragging and dropping files into the trash or simply deleting 
> them in nautilus shouldn't follow symlinks either, which, so far as I 
> can tell, was what was happening with the reported bug  :-)
> 
> I was merely trying to point out that the idea "to move files into
trash
> instead of letting Wine to safely remove them?" is one that is fairly 
> regularly suggested here.
> 
> David Shaw
I was referring to something else. About a year or so ago Wine started to use
Trash to remove files to. Before it was just removing them.