MacOS – Wine won’t open any programs

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Running macOS Sierra(Version 10.12.2 16C67).

I installed Wine version wine-1.8.6 (through a .pkg file). I opened up a game and it worked fine.

The next day when I downloaded Origin installer, it wouldn't open. When I double clicked on it, the Wine icon showed up in the dock and said it was open, but no windows showed up. When I clicked on another program(or on the desktop), Wine closed. Now when I try to start that same game I opened when I first installed Wine, the same thing happens that happened when I started Origin installer.

When I go to the terminal and type wine {path of .exe} I got this:
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I installed wine tricks using brew install winetricks and it installed fine, yet it didn't change my situation.

winecfg works properly, and so does sh winetricks.

Best Answer

The real problem was that I had removed the Z: drive which pointed to my root directory. After adding the Z: drive back using winecfg, I was able to run Windows programs from any location again.

image showing Z: drive pointing to root directory in winecfg

I finally got it fixed. I just deleted the .wine folder, ran winecfg again, and everything started working.

rm -rf ~/.wine
winecfg

Sometimes after trying this solution, I still have this problem. I have found that moving the program to inside the ~/.wine/drive_c folder fixes this.

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