Wine won't follow Symbolic links

Question

I can't get Wine to follow some symbolic links I have in my home folder or in applications. Is there a way to enable this? This is on Wine-1.5.18.

Edit: Just in case it helps, I'm trying to use a symbolic link to share the save data from my Fallout 1, between my netbook and my Desktop via Dropbox.

Edit 2: Apparently, there was a option in the wine config file in the past, but I can't find it in the new registry. Anyone have any idea?

Solution

Don't move and link the whole ~/.wine directory, but the subdirectories c_drive and dosdevices, then try again. At least that worked for us for one program (heidisql).

Comments

[bender]

Could you please describe, what directory exactly you're trying to link to? What directory in wine's drive_c should the link be created in? Where in the Linux' directory structure should the link point to?

[Neojames]

I already have created the link, and can follow it other other applications. I just cannot follow it in Wine.

[Neojames]

Ok, I am linking from ~/Dropbox/Fallout/ to ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/GSP/Fallout/DATA/SAVEGAME

[DDsix]

Your shell should automatically expand the ~, so that's not the issue here. Also, in the link the discussion is about using relative paths which aren't in use if you link to some ~/... directory.

[Winampah]

Absolutely. I have used both kinds of symlinks in the past (relative and absolute) It's not a symlink issue. It's something inside of Wine. Older versions didn't have this issue that I'm experiencing now after an upgrade.