Wine games, switching distros.

Knightron · 07-07-2012, 03:46 AM

Hello. For quite a bit i've been using Opensuse 12.1. I have wine all set up and three Windows programs installed by that. Two of the Windows programs are games with saved states.
I am now switching over to Debian Wheezy. I do not want to loose my saved games but continue using them unchanged on Debian instead of Opensuse; to do this is it just a matter of preserving my .wine file? or do i need to do anything else?

pixellany · 07-07-2012, 03:57 AM

If I am remembering correctly, Windows stores such things in
<<username>>/Local Settings/Application Data

With WINE, the path to this is:
~/.wine/drive_c/users/<<username>>/Local Settings/Application Data

Take a look there and see if there are some files that might include the saved state. If so, you can copy the files, and then re-install them after you install the application in a different distro.

414N · 07-07-2012, 05:13 AM

Simply keep the wine prefixes you have inside your home folder (.wine and all the others you may have created) and you won't lose anything.
If you're not gonna re-format/erase your /home (hope it's on a distinct partition from /) then you don't need to worry about anything.