wine users - Apr 2009 - Deleting the hidden .wine folder in OSX... Help!

How do I delete the hidden .wine folder on OS X if rm -rf doesn't work, I
can't cd to it, and Houdini can't view it?

I'm trying to uninstall wine from OS X and I need to delete the virtual C
drive. If I "locate wine" in the terminal, it reveals that the virtual
C drive is in /username/.wine. rm -rf and sudo rm -rf have no effect. I
can't cd to /username/.wine, it tells me "file or directory does not
exist." In Houdini, it doesn't show a .wine folder under the user
directory.

Any advice on how to remove the folder? There's a good deal of disk space
locked up in windows programs I'd like to free up.

Thanks for your time.

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 2:51 AM, helpplease <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> How do I delete the hidden .wine folder on OS X if rm -rf doesn't work,
I can't cd to it, and Houdini can't view it?
>
> I'm trying to uninstall wine from OS X and I need to delete the virtual
C drive. If I "locate wine" in the terminal, it reveals that the
virtual C drive is in /username/.wine. rm -rf and sudo rm -rf have no effect. I
can't cd to /username/.wine, it tells me "file or directory does not
exist." In Houdini, it doesn't show a .wine folder under the user
directory.
>
> Any advice on how to remove the folder? There's a good deal of disk
space locked up in windows programs I'd like to free up.
>
> Thanks for your time.
Are you sure it's not in /Users/username/.wine?


-- 
-Austin

/username/.wine doesn't sound right. In OS X your home directory is located
in /Users/username. Instead of using the full path, try this while logged on as
the user whose wine directory you want to delete:

rm -rf ~/.wine

The ~ refers to the path to your own home directory, so is equivalent to
/Users/foo (if the logged on user is called foo)

Sorry for not being clear: .wine is under /Users/username. I cannot delete the
folder with sudo rm -rf /Users/username/.wine.

In fact, I can't even navigate to it... Cd indicates the folder does not
exist, and Houdini can't see the hidden file. Under /Users/username, ls does
not reveal the .wine folder.

However, locate wine does show the path /Users/username/.wine/drive_c/ etc etc.

Thanks for your reply though... any other suggestions?