wine users - Jan 2012 - move temp files directory?

I would like to point Wine at my Linux temp directory instead of
/home/username/.wine/drive_c/users/username/Temp.  Is there a way to have the
Wine environment variable specify a different location?

On Sun, 2012-01-22 at 15:35 -0600, tigerdog wrote:
> I would like to point Wine at my Linux temp directory instead
> of /home/username/.wine/drive_c/users/username/Temp.  Is there a way
> to have the Wine environment variable specify a different location?
> 
The default is: WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine"
You can change WINEPREFIX to anything you like:

export WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine_for_myapp"

works and so should: export WINEPREFIX="/path/to/wherever/I/want"
but an easier way to handle this is to use a wrapper script, e.g.

==============================================================#!/bin/bash
export WINEPREFIX=/where/your/app/is"
cd $WINEPREFIX
wine myapp.exe
=============================================================

Martin

Martin Gregorie wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-01-22 at 15:35 -0600, tigerdog wrote:
> 
> > I would like to point Wine at my Linux temp directory instead
> > of /home/username/.wine/drive_c/users/username/Temp.  Is there a way
> > to have the Wine environment variable specify a different location?
> > 
> > 
> The default is: WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine"
> You can change WINEPREFIX to anything you like:
> 
> export WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine_for_myapp"
> 
> works and so should: export WINEPREFIX="/path/to/wherever/I/want"
> but an easier way to handle this is to use a wrapper script, e.g.
> 
> ==============================================================>
#!/bin/bash
> export WINEPREFIX=/where/your/app/is"
> cd $WINEPREFIX
> wine myapp.exe
> =============================================================> 
> 
> Martin

He meant to change the directory that wine uses for temporary files, not the
prefix, I think.

> I would like to point Wine at my Linux temp directory instead of
> /home/username/.wine/drive_c/users/username/Temp
	You can use ln to create a symbolic link, for example:

	rm -rf /home/username/.wine/drive_c/users/username/Temp
	ln -s /tmp /home/username/.wine/drive_c/users/username/Temp

jorl17 wrote:
> He meant to change the directory that wine uses for temporary files, not
the prefix, I think.
Correct - that's what I want to do.


L. Rahyen wrote:
> You can use ln to create a symbolic link, for example:
> 
> 	rm -rf /home/username/.wine/drive_c/users/username/Temp
> 	ln -s /tmp /home/username/.wine/drive_c/users/username/Temp
And that did it!  Thank you jorl17 and L.Rahyen!   Temp files now go where I
want.  I appreciate the help!