wine users - Nov 2004 - Error writing temporary file. Make sure your temp folder is valid.

"Error writing temporary file. Make sure your temp folder is valid."

Can someone help out with this one? I have been trying to figure it out all 
day :(

I have installed from the newest RPM for SuSE 9.1, and get the above as any 
user. I suspect there is something to be changed in the config file, but I 
have no idea where to start.

Thanks All,

On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 00:27:26 -0600, Dan O <legacyboy@shaw.ca>
wrote:
> "Error writing temporary file. Make sure your temp folder is
valid."
> 
> Can someone help out with this one? I have been trying to figure it out all
> day :(
> 
> I have installed from the newest RPM for SuSE 9.1, and get the above as any
> user. I suspect there is something to be changed in the config file, but I
> have no idea where to start.
> 
> Thanks All,
Hi Dan,
   A few questions:

1) What version of Wine? Run the command 

wine  --version

2) Are you using a config file? Assuming things are in the normal
place, run the command

ls -al ~dan/.wine

3) Have you modified any of the links in dosdevices?

ls -al ~dan/.wine/dosdevices

4) What application are you running that is causing this message? Is
it known to work according to the WineHQ application database?

Let's start with that much and see where it leads.

good luck,
Mark

Dan O wrote:
> "Error writing temporary file. Make sure your temp folder is
valid."
> 
> Can someone help out with this one? I have been trying to figure it out all
> day :(
> 
> I have installed from the newest RPM for SuSE 9.1, and get the above as any
> user. I suspect there is something to be changed in the config file, but I 
> have no idea where to start.
> 
> Thanks All,
Edit your wine configuration file; normally ~/.wine/config and see the 
following section

[wine]
...
"Temp" = "c:\\windows\\temp"
...

You must point to an existing directory where you have write permission. 
In this example temp point to the normal temp dir of windows. You can 
use win path (with double backslaches) or linux paths;

Olive