Wine won't follow Symbolic links

I can't get Wine to follow some symbolic links I have in my home folder or in applications. Is there a way to enable this? This is on Wine-1.5.18.

Edit: Just in case it helps, I'm trying to use a symbolic link to share the save data from my Fallout 1, between my netbook and my Desktop via Dropbox.

Edit 2: Apparently, there was a option in the wine config file in the past, but I can't find it in the new registry. Anyone have any idea?

Solution 1:

When symbolic linking to something you wish to run, you need to use the full path instead of path shortcut notation. Wine will not expand the notation and tries to follow as a relative path. i.e. use /home/user instead of ~/.

See this answer for more details: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2001697

Solution 2:

Don't move and link the whole ~/.wine directory, but the subdirectories c_drive and dosdevices, then try again. At least that worked for us for one program (heidisql).