POL_Install_CentralizedUserDirs

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When Wine creates a prefix ("virtual drive"), it uses symlinks to make several user special paths (My Documents, My Pictures, etc.) point to closest equivalent Linux directory.

This is fine to allow Windows applications to manipulate user files seamlessly, but can also be annoying (game saves "escaping" the game virtual drive, and littering your Linux directories with files and directories.

This function replace all the virtual drive's symlinks with symlinks to a directory of your choice.

#!/bin/bash
# Date : (2013-10-31 21-16)
# Last revision : (2013-10-31 21-26)
# Author : petch
# Only For : http://www.playonlinux.com

# Just to be on the safe side
[ -n "$WINEPREFIX" ] || POL_Debug_Fatal "POL_Function_CentralizedUserDirs: Variable WINEPREFIX not set!"

local CENTRALIZED_USERDIRS="$(POL_Config_Read CENTRALIZED_USERDIRS)"
 
if [ -z "$CENTRALIZED_USERDIRS" -o ! -d "$CENTRALIZED_USERDIRS" ]; then
        POL_SetupWindow_textbox "$(eval_gettext 'In what directory do you want to redirect user directories?')" "$TITLE" "$HOME/$APPLICATION_TITLE's user directories"
        CENTRALIZED_USERDIRS="$APP_ANSWER"
        mkdir -p "$CENTRALIZED_USERDIRS" || POL_Debug_Fatal "Could not create the directory"
        POL_Config_Write CENTRALIZED_USERDIRS "$CENTRALIZED_USERDIRS"
fi

find "$WINEPREFIX/drive_c/" -type l -exec sh -c 'echo "fixing {}"; rm "{}"; ln -s "'"$CENTRALIZED_USERDIRS"'" "{}"' \;