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I ran wine with sudo or as root. How do I fix my permission errors?

April 26, 2017errors Fix permission ran sudo Wine

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I ran wine with sudo or as root. How do I fix my permission errors?

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You need to fix the permissions on your ~/.wine directory, this is where all Wine state, configuration and any important data you might have such as installed programs, saved data within Wine programs, etc. are stored. Once you delete or fix the permssions on this directory, rerun Wine as a regular user always! Run the following to fix the permissions on your ~/.wine directory if it now has root permissions.