wine users - Sep 2011 - "My Documents" and other symlinks to home are not listed

Hi. My Documents, My Music, My Pictures, and My Videos aren't visible (but
accessible) from C:\users\%USER% . "Desktop", however, is visible.
This breaks precompiled samples from directx SDK 2004. I extracted them to My
Documents/Downloads, and they can't find their resources.

This also affects cmd.exe, explorer, total commander.

Anyone else experience this?

Code:
[il at mar2 ~]$ ls -l /home/il/.winetest/drive_c/users/il
total 44
drwxr-xr-x 2 il il 4096 Sep  3 14:15 Application Data
drwxr-xr-x 2 il il 4096 Sep  3 14:15 Cookies
lrwxrwxrwx 1 il il   16 Sep  3 14:15 Desktop -> /home/il/Desktop
drwxr-xr-x 2 il il 4096 Sep  3 14:15 Favorites
drwxr-xr-x 5 il il 4096 Sep  3 14:15 Local Settings



Code:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 il il    8 Sep  3 14:15 My Documents -> /home/il
lrwxrwxrwx 1 il il    8 Sep  3 14:15 My Music -> /home/il
lrwxrwxrwx 1 il il    8 Sep  3 14:15 My Pictures -> /home/il
lrwxrwxrwx 1 il il    8 Sep  3 14:15 My Videos -> /home/il



Code:

drwxr-xr-x 2 il il 4096 Sep  3 14:15 NetHood
drwxr-xr-x 2 il il 4096 Sep  3 14:15 PrintHood
drwxr-xr-x 2 il il 4096 Sep  3 14:15 Recent
drwxr-xr-x 2 il il 4096 Sep  3 14:15 SendTo
drwxr-xr-x 3 il il 4096 Sep  3 14:15 Start Menu
drwxr-xr-x 2 il il 4096 Sep  3 14:15 Temp
drwxr-xr-x 2 il il 4096 Sep  3 14:15 Templates





Code:

[il at mar2 ~]$ echo $WINEPREFIX 
/home/il/.winetest
[il at mar2 ~]$ wine cmd /c "dir" "C:\users\il"
Volume in drive C is 
Volume Serial Number is 0000-0000

Directory of C:\users\il

  9/3/2011   1:15 PM  <DIR>         .
  9/3/2011   1:15 PM  <DIR>         ..
  9/3/2011   1:15 PM  <DIR>         Application Data
  9/3/2011   1:15 PM  <DIR>         Cookies
  9/3/2011  12:26 PM  <DIR>         Desktop
  9/3/2011   1:15 PM  <DIR>         Favorites
  9/3/2011   1:15 PM  <DIR>         Local Settings
  9/3/2011   1:15 PM  <DIR>         NetHood



Code:

  9/3/2011   1:15 PM  <DIR>         PrintHood
  9/3/2011   1:15 PM  <DIR>         Recent
  9/3/2011   1:15 PM  <DIR>         SendTo
  9/3/2011   1:15 PM  <DIR>         Start Menu
  9/3/2011   1:15 PM  <DIR>         Temp
  9/3/2011   1:15 PM  <DIR>         Templates
       0 files                        0 bytes
      14 directories      5,583,409,152 bytes free

[il at mar2 ~]$

Sorry to say this but this is a Stiff briskets issue.

Since 

> lrwxrwxrwx 1 il il    8 Sep  3 14:15 My Documents -> /home/il
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 il il    8 Sep  3 14:15 My Music -> /home/il
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 il il    8 Sep  3 14:15 My Pictures -> /home/il
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 il il    8 Sep  3 14:15 My Videos -> /home/il 

All point to the same location.    Users home directory.

Open up winecfg go to desktop integration change My Documents to point to like
/home/il/Documents and it will magically appear.  Or you might decide to give
wine its own documents directory and again it will magically appear.

When they are pointing to the generic user home directory they auto pull the
disappearing act.  Mostly to motivate people to configure them to point to your
document store and so on.

Yes you really don't want windows applications accessing the straight home
directory if you can avoid it.

Yes if you point Desktop to /home/il it will disappear from existence as well.

lenivity the trick to non experienced basically.  Its not that they are links
that it special is the path the link is pointing to.

oiaohm wrote:
> Might be worth a bug report to request ~/Documents as My Documents and so
on.
> 
> Since it does get away from some badly behaved open source program ported
to windows that put there . directories in the My Documents directory.    Not
that you really should be running those programs in wine in the first place.

its easy to call a home folder variable... but not every distro, or other OS
uses the same folder names for those things...  even if they worked it out for
everything... a lot of people don;t even want them there and want to put them
manually elsewhere.  Why not just set winecfg how you want it and then your good
to go?