lostandfound
2008-Oct-23 02:48 UTC
[Wine] Changing Wine's mapping of system folders (Documents etc)
Hi, thanks for reading. I'm playing Neverwinter Nights 2 on Wine. Let me just say first of all that it runs great!). Thing is, the game defaults (as most games do) to saving save-files and options to the Documents folder. Some browsing on their forums shows that this is in line with Microsoft's new (post-Vista) policy for all software titles, user-specific settings go into Documents. Anyhow, this results in my save-games (and a couple of file settings) going into my /home/{username}/ folder. It creates a folder with the game's name there and saves everything there. Thing is that I tend to format the entire home partition every once in a while, and am trying to minimize the number of things I'll have to remember to copy. So, I'd like to know whether I can somehow tell NWN2, through Wine, that the Documents folder (I assume that's what they're using) is somewhere else. Just a note, I could of course copy the folder out of my home partition to my data partition and symlink it every time, but would like a more elegant and permanent (non-dependent on my remembering to do this) solution. Thanks.