wine users - Mar 2008 - moving or renaming .wine folder after installations

Hi,
i want to reorg my directories and move (and rename) some .wine folder to /opt.
After moving and renaming the .wine folder some applications don't start
again. A least, i found some .lnk files in c:\... with absolute user and folder
names inside.
I dont know if i misunderstand something or if something is misconfigured in my
wine but until now i think that the C:\ / Z:\ devices are the highest level for
the windows-world and access to linux files is via symbolic links.
If you use cedega, you can completly move or rename (with some minor changes in
the config files) an installed windows-bottle. I have an installation at
/home/db/.wine-t1 and want to move this to /opt/wine/railway. But there are
entries like db and .wine-t1 in the .lnk files (.lnk was created by the
applications installer).
What is my misunderstanding and why do windows programs know things about db and
.wine-t1? I am expecting that they only know things defined in dosdevices, the
trees under C: and so on....

Regards, Alfredo

alfredo wrote:
> Hi,
> i want to reorg my directories and move (and rename) some .wine folder to
/opt.
> After moving and renaming the .wine folder some applications don't
start again. A least, i found some .lnk files in c:\... with absolute user and
folder names inside.
> 

You can move ~/.wine directory anywhere you want. Just don't forget to set
WINEPREFIX env var accordingly. The symlinks you are talking about:
$ ls -la ~/.wine/dosdevices
c: -> ../drive_c
z: -> /

Should still work, unless you modified them into absolute paths. The
"../drive_c" is a relative path.

If you talking about windows paths, they will not change.

However, if you moving something to the /opt directory that means only _one_
user at a time can run Wine! And that _all_ users will have to have full access
permissions to that directory!

thank you, the old question - bug or feature - .
Any idea to shift around like "force relative paths" at installation?

On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 7:55 AM, alfredo <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> thank you, the old question - bug or feature - .
>  Any idea to shift around like "force relative paths" at
installation?
No reason to keep absolute paths if relative are better?

Dan Kegel wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 7:55 AM, alfredo <wineforum-user at
winehq.org> wrote:
> 
> > thank you, the old question - bug or feature - .
> > Any idea to shift around like "force relative paths" at
installation?
> > 
> 
> No reason to keep absolute paths if relative are better?

use winedump on that lnk and post here.

must play with that. Could be a management problem. I have more than one wine
installation. Mostly one application in a different dir to prevent side-effects.

chroot could be a solution too, but i have nothing found about wine and
chroot....