wine, file system, multimedia and usenet.

Asked by meowmix

i've used, dabbled realy, with linux over the past 12 or so years and have now decided to give it a propper crack of the wip.

i managed to install wine, install newsleecher and get it all working ok. newsleecher dl's, only i have to double click on the file i want to dl. i can cd to the download directory using the terminal/command prompt after cutting and pasting a path from a help file, only i cannot do it with the file manager. how do i do that to play a downloaded mp3?

is it possible to change the dl directory of newsleecher to one of my ntfs partitions?

am i correct in thinking that wine and installed apps and newsleecher dl dir are on my home dir/partition?

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Federico Tello Gentile (federicotg) said :
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Yes they should be in your home partition, in fact somewhere in the directory wine uses to simulate the windows directory tree. Just use the file search function to find where are the files and then bookmark that folder.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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Yes, wine apps are installed in ~/.wine/drive_c

You can use a symlink to your NTFS partition. The wine app will save the file in a folder, but the link will mean it is really stored on the NTFS partiton. Assuming the NTFS partition is mounted at /media/ntfs you can use a command like:

mkdir /media/ntfs/MP3s; ln -s /media/ntfs/MP3s ~/.wine/drive_c/MP3s

If you save the file in wine, in "C:\MP3s" then you can access them from Ubuntu via /media/ntfs/MP3s

Make sure you only download non-copyrighted material. Canonical and the Ubuntu community do not advise or support piracy and similar activities.

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