thanks for your reply, which prompted me to retest what i thought i had done, wherepon i found it was my mistake - i had mistaken the media id of my smartphone for the id of the hd partition where i keep all my own files so i dont lose them when xubuntu next gets itself into an unworkable state. the media ids are so long i never can remember them; fortunately, most times i dont have to, but when using wine, it seems i do.
i could have set up /home on a different partition at installation but forgot to do that the last time i had to fresh install xubuntu 14.04 because an app i use (openshot) would not install under an updated xubuntu 12.04 due to some library packages becoming inconsistent with the version of openshot in the repository (or some other reason, the details of which i dont know and as an end-user dont want to have to know). it would be nice for end-users like me if /home and any other folders that store apps rather than kernel software could be mounted, by default, in separate partitions so apps dont have to be redownloaded every fresh install. i guess expert users know which folders these are and can configue their own reinstallations efficiently. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1401369 Title: wine+thunar xubuntu 14.04 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wine/+bug/1401369/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs