“Recently” Windows application and games have figured out that it’s awesome to place files and folder outside of their install location. They also do this without providing you with a way to change these locations.
Windows games these days seem to be placing their save game files and settings in a folder in “My Documents”. Sadly, Wine sets “My Documents” to ~ by default. This means that the output from `ls` looks something like this:
backup
Borderlands
dev
images
Max Payne 2 Saved Games
Max Payne Saved Games
memory
Star Craft II
Star Craft II Beta
tmp
usr
Luckily, we can easily change this with `winecfg` (or manually for that matter):
- Fire up `winecfg` and go to Desktop Integration.
- Select the folder and uncheck link to/change its path.
- Repeat until satisfied.
- Move old folders and files to their new location.
You can also change this manually:
- `cd ~/.wine/drive_c/users/${USER}`
- Change the respective folders as you’d like.
- Move old folders and files to their new location.