Linux ubuntu replaced my files with broken links

[Beelzebuddy]

True, but you didn't include very many details either so we have to whittle it down by process of elimination. Reading back over your OP-if the saved version was only 90 bytes or less, was it just making an alias of the file and saving the actual file somewhere else?

Here's the thread about the install process. I'd bet the files are in /usr/local/share/games and linked to from the home directory bignickel's looking in.

 

[Elagabalus]

Here's the thread about the install process. I'd bet the files are in /usr/local/share/games and linked to from the home directory bignickel's looking in.

Thanks. I forgot about that thread.


Bignickel did you enable show hidden files? It might be worth a look-see.

 

[Donn]

I never said my drive wasn't mounting or that I had more than one

...knoffix or whatever it was called gave up with "can't mount MNT drive" or something when I booted with it.

Tried scalpel but it never could find the drive

If anyone knows of a GUI based program that could recover files I'm all ears

Well. Excuse the shell out of me!


Glad Steam sorted it.

 

[CORed]

It's been several years since I messed with Wine, but it didn't take long then for me to decide that it was just more damn trouble than it's worth. I haven't seen much lately to convince me that this is no longer true. I decided that if I want to run Windows software, it's easier, and worth the cost of the license, to run it in Windows. This could be either a hardware install or a virtual machine.

Regarding the broken links. I seriously doubt that Linux "replaced your files with broken links". Most likely the links were there all along, and something happened to the files that the links were pointing to.

 

[Beelzebuddy]

It's been several years since I messed with Wine, but it didn't take long then for me to decide that it was just more damn trouble than it's worth. I haven't seen much lately to convince me that this is no longer true.

Look into Playonlinux. It sets up a customized wine instance for every application, based on user-generated install scripts. If it has a script for something, odds are it'll run okay.