David Shaw wrote:> > At the risk of getting flamed, you yourself have often told people to > 'rm -rf ~/.wine' :-) > > David ShawWhen I entered 'rm -rf ~/.wine' it says: rm: /Users/christopherwelch/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Inbox Toolbar: Permission denied rm: /Users/christopherwelch/.wine/drive_c/Program Files: Directory not empty rm: /Users/christopherwelch/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/All Users/Start Menu/Programs/Inbox Toolbar: Permission denied rm: /Users/christopherwelch/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/All Users/Start Menu/Programs: Directory not empty rm: /Users/christopherwelch/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/All Users/Start Menu: Directory not empty rm: /Users/christopherwelch/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/All Users: Directory not empty rm: /Users/christopherwelch/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles: Directory not empty rm: /Users/christopherwelch/.wine/drive_c/windows: Directory not empty rm: /Users/christopherwelch/.wine/drive_c: Directory not empty rm: /Users/christopherwelch/.wine: Directory not empty What does this mean? I am opening Wine's 'File Manager', go to the 'Shell' tab, scroll down to 'Trash' (with the icon of a trash can beside it), and click it, it shows everything I had installed (such as games) and pressed delete. Is there a way to delete these files? I can empty the trash like I could on Windows, or on a Mac. I just right click and click empty. In Wine, I pull up this Trash folder, and all of the files are there. When I right click the Trash folder, it lists delete, but I don't want to delete it, in case it messes it up.
topher.becca means someone most likely run wine with sudo at some point and has stuffed permissions up.
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 1:16 AM, topher.becca <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> > When I entered 'rm -rf ~/.wine' it says: > rm: /Users/christopherwelch/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Inbox Toolbar: Permission denied > rm: /Users/christopherwelch/.wine/drive_c/Program Files: Directory not empty > rm: /Users/christopherwelch/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/All Users/Start Menu/Programs/Inbox Toolbar: Permission denied > rm: /Users/christopherwelch/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/All Users/Start Menu/Programs: Directory not empty > rm: /Users/christopherwelch/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/All Users/Start Menu: Directory not empty > rm: /Users/christopherwelch/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/All Users: Directory not empty > rm: /Users/christopherwelch/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles: Directory not empty > rm: /Users/christopherwelch/.wine/drive_c/windows: Directory not empty > rm: /Users/christopherwelch/.wine/drive_c: Directory not empty > rm: /Users/christopherwelch/.wine: Directory not empty > > What does this mean?This means that your user does not 'own' the files. Did you by chance run Wine as root or through sudo? The Wine FAQ has instructions on how to fix file permissions. It appears that you are using a Mac, and I highly recommend switching $HOME and then running sudo rm -rf .wine. NEVER RUN WINE AS SUDO unless recommended and then you will have to fix file permissions before running Wine again as your user. Location of file permissions fix: http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-8b89c928ce782c014b8b312469223296093e1484 James McKenzie