All,

The system is FC5 and wine version 0.9.22. The issue is am app complains "registry has reported one of files is damaged or missing ..."

Wine is set up to use a partition. When windoz is booted into the partition the app runs.

Which registry is wine using, its own or the native one?

How can the wine registry be rebuilt/

Thanks - Dan

Did you say that you installed wine in the windows partition?

Good Day

Use an application called "winetools", it is excellent and allows you to edit the registry manually, it can be found at
http://www.von-thadden.de/Joachim/WineTools/

Cheers

Winetools should be available via yum.

Lazlow

You can look and edit the wine registry with the command
wine regedit.exe

Thanks for the replies. Here are some follow ups:

windoz is in its own partition. It is bootable. In this situation which registry is used: the 'real' one or system.reg?

How does system.reg get built? (mayby this was answered and I didn't get it) If I erase system.reg and run wine system.reg gets re-created. Is this from the windoz registry?

Which registry does the windoz app use? The windoz reg or system.reg?

What does winetools do? I have been using wine for 10 years (yes the origanal 16 bit versions) and have never used winetools. I have always use a bootable parition. In that way booting and installing the app provided assurance it worked before trying wine.

Thanks - Dan

I'm surprised that after ten years you don't understand the wine set-up. Wine builds a profile folder in your .wine folder. In there you will see user.reg, system.reg, and userdef.reg. You can edit any of those files or use the regedit.exe program. The easiest way to rebuild the registry is to either delete or rename the .wine folder and then run winecfg to recreate .wine again. Of course you will have to reinstall all the programs you had.

Winetools is as far as I now just an extra tool to easily install some standard issues for wine and set up a standard wine directory, so its not necessary but it's worth installing
Grtzz DM