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I think I've looked through most of the config files and script that come with Crossover, but still haven't been able to change one thing that annoy me - all bottles I create have the My Documents, My Pictures, My Music, and My Videos symlinked to directories in my Documents folder by default. Is there a way to modify this default behaviour?

Though I agree it's likely a reasonable default setup for most uses, personally I'd like to set it to work the other way around (link if it useful for a specific bottle).

Apologies if this has been asked before, search didn't want to tell.

Unfortunately not. The symlink creation is done by C code in shell32. It the Wine code its in dlls/shell32/shellpath.c, the function name is _SHCreateSymbolicLinks. There is a comment explaining the basic rules here http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/blob/HEAD:/dlls/shell32/shellpath.c#l2564 .

I think CrossOver has some logic on top of it, like creating the Y:\ drive to point to $HOME. I haven't located the exact logic, but I don't think it's configurable. You can try to rebuild the Wine parts in CrossOver from source (see http://www.codeweavers.com/products/faq/source/, there's a download link to the crossover sources) and replace the shell32 library. I can't guarantee that this will work though.

Just to say that I would like it too if you guys exposed it in the interface somewhere. The symlink aren't always where I want them and manually modifying them is a bit anoying. I have thought about making a script, but my skills aren't there yet.

This (rather old) wine bug entry http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10363 makes it sound like shell32 should be detecting a user's xdg directories and doing shell folder redirection, but I have never seen this behavior in Crossover - new bottles always create new "My" directories in ~/Documents if they don't already exist.

Crossover does however expose this setting in the GUI, though it needs to be set for each bottle. From the main crossover window, Tools -> Manage bottles -> select a bottle -> Control Panel -> Wine Configuration ->Desktop Integration.

Interesting, but I would rather have a central interface, not per bottle. Further, there is no choice for the "my games" folder which is kept in the documents folder, somehting I don't want.

J-P Simard wrote:

Interesting, but I would rather have a central interface, not per
bottle.

Here's a solution that works for me on Linux (I'm not sure whether I found that out myself or not, though). Create a file called "01.setup_folders" in the folder "$HOME/.cxoffice/scripts.d" and enter the following contents:

#!/bin/bash

function wine_link_directory
{
    if [ -e "$1" ]; then
        rm "$1"
    fi

    if [ ! -d "$1" ]; then
        ln -s -f "$2" "$1"
    fi
}

# setup special folders
BOTTLE_USER_DIR="$WINEPREFIX/drive_c/users/crossover"
WINE_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Dokumente/wine"

wine_link_directory "$BOTTLE_USER_DIR/My Documents" "$WINE_DOCUMENTS_DIR"
wine_link_directory "$BOTTLE_USER_DIR/My Music" "$WINE_DOCUMENTS_DIR/Eigene Musik"
wine_link_directory "$BOTTLE_USER_DIR/My Pictures" "$WINE_DOCUMENTS_DIR/Eigene Bilder"
wine_link_directory "$BOTTLE_USER_DIR/My Videos" "$WINE_DOCUMENTS_DIR/Eigene Videos"

This will be run at creation time of every bottle and create symlinks in the folder "$HOME/Dokumente/wine" (which has to exist already). Adjust to your preferences and enjoy... :)

Thanks, great script!