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Removing a Wine Bottle

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:53:00 -0400

Bottles allows one to run applications developed for the Microsoft Windows operating system (OS) on Linux systems. I had created bottle for the desktop version of Comic Collector from CLZ. But as I had installed the Movie Collector and Book Collector desktop programs for managing our movie and book collections in a .wine-collectorz Wine prefix on an Ubuntu Linux system, I decided to remove the Comic Collector bottle and reinstall the software in the .wine-collectorz prefix instead. To remove a Wine bottle, you can take the following steps.

Open the Bottles application and select the bottle you wish to remove by clicking on it.
With the relevant bottle displayed, click on the column of 3 dots near the top, right side of the window.
Select Delete Bottle from the pull down menu
When asked for confirmation for the deletion, click on Delete.

The bottle will then be removed from the list of bottles. You can confirm that the directory associated with the bottle is gone by checking the ~/.var/app/com.usebottles.bottles/data/bottles/bottles/ directory.

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Viewing shared folders on a Windows system

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:20:00 -0400

There are several ways you can view the list of shared folders on a system running a Microsoft Windows operating system (OS).

Method 1: Using Computer Management — Graphical User Interface (GUI)

Press the Windows key plus the X key (or you can press the Windows key plus the R key, type compmgmt.msc and press Enter.
In the left pane of the window, expand System Tools, then Shared Folders, and then select Shares. A list of all the active shared folders, their paths, and share names will appear in the right pane.

Method 2: Using Powershell

Open the Start menu, or use the Windows key and R, type PowerShell, and press Enter. Then type the command Get-SmbShare and press Enter. The command displays a table of all server message block (SMB) shares currently active on your machine.If you only want to see the directory path for a particular sharename, you can use a command such as Get-Smbshare -Name sharename where sharename is the relevant sharename. E.g., if the directory E:\Downloads was shared using the sharename Downloads.
```
PS C:\> Get-SMBShare -Name Downloads

Name      ScopeName Path         Description
----      --------- ----         -----------
Downloads *         E:\Downloads


PS C:\>
```

Method 3: Using Command Prompt

Open the File Explorer, which you can do by pressing the Windows key and E.
Click in the address bar field at the top of the File Explorer window.
Type \\localhost or \\127.0.0.1 and press Enter to see your computer's own shared directories over the network. The localhost name is a hostname that refers to the local system which is equivalent to the local loopback address of 127.0.0.1.

Checking on which Debian packages need updating and updating all of them

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:52:00 -0400

To check on which Debian packages may need updating and update all for which upgrades are available on an Ubuntu Linux system, you can take the following steps:

Update the package lists
Open a terminal window and fetch the latest information about available updates from the remote repositories:
```
sudo apt update
```
List packages with available updates
List every installed package that has a newer version ready to install:
```
apt list --upgradable
```
Simulate the update (optional)
Perform a dry run to see exactly which packages will be upgraded or installed without making any actual system changes:
```
sudo apt upgrade -s
```
Apply the updates
Upgrade all available packages to their latest versions:
```
sudo apt upgrade
```
To automatically perform distribution upgrades that may add or remove dependencies to complete the update, use sudo apt dist-upgrade or sudo apt full-upgrade instead.

Using winecfg to map a drive letter to a shared network folder

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:45:00 -0400

To map a drive letter in Wine to a network share, you can't type a \\server\share Universal Naming Convention directly into winecfg. Wine requires network shares to be mounted locally on your host operating system (OS), such as Linux or macOS, first. To mount a network share using the Server Message Block (SMB) communication protocol, take the following steps:

Mount the SMB Share on Your Host OS
Open a terminal window Mount the Windows network share to a local directory on your machine using cifs-utils.
```
sudo mkdir -p /mnt/WINSHARE
sudo mount -t cifs //IP_OR_HOSTNAME/SHARE_NAME /mnt/winshare -o username=USERNAME
```
Subsitute the name you wish to use for the mount point for WINSHARE, the IP address or hostname for IP_OR_HOSTNAME, the name of the share on the remote computer for SHARE_NAME, and the relevant username for USERNAME. E.g.:
```
alice@Wonderland:~$ sudo mkdir -p /mnt/borras_public
[sudo: authenticate] Password:               
ailce@Wonderland:~$ sudo mount -t cifs //borras/public /mnt/borras_public -o username=alice
Password for alice@//borras/public: 
alice@Wonderland:~$
```
Verify access by checking if the files appear:
```
ls /mnt/winshare
```
Open Wine Configuration
Launch the Wine configuration utility from the terminal window.
```
winecfg
```
(If using a specific prefix, issue the command WINEPREFIX=/path/to/prefix winecfg, instead).
Add a New Drive Letter
Select the Drives tab at the top of the winecfg window.
- Click the Add... button at the bottom.
- Select an available drive letter (e.g. Z:) from the drop-down menu and click OK.
Link the Drive to the Mount Point
With your new drive letter selected in the list:
- Locate the Target: input field near the bottom.
- Enter the path where you mounted the share (e.g., /mnt/winshare) or click Browse... to select it.
- (Optional) Click Show Advanced and set the drive Type to Network drive.
Apply and Test
To verify the mapping was successful, open Wine's file manager:
```
wine winefile
```
Your mapped drive letter should now be visible and accessible under My Computer.

Sharing a folder on an Ubuntu Linux system using SMB

Sun, 13 Sep 2026 13:43:00 -0400

You can share a folder on an Ubuntu Linux system with Windows systems using Server Message Block (SMB) by installing Samba, a free and open-source software package. If Samba isn't installed, you can install it as a Debian package with the following commands:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install samba

You can verify that the Samba service is running with the command sudo systemctl status smbd; you should see "active (running)".

alice@Wonderland:~$ sudo systemctl status smbd
● smbd.service - Samba SMB Daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/smbd.service; enabled; preset: ena>
     Active: active (running) since Sat 2026-09-12 17:09:53 EDT; 4min 16s ago
 Invocation: 4c72abe09deb445d91cb063be76afc0b
       Docs: man:smbd(8)
             man:samba(7)
             man:smb.conf(5)
   Main PID: 540371 (smbd)
     Status: "smbd: ready to serve connections..."
      Tasks: 3 (limit: 151234)
     Memory: 10M (peak: 11.1M)
        CPU: 161ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/smbd.service
             ├─540371 /usr/sbin/smbd --foreground --no-process-group
             ├─540388 "smbd: notifyd" .
             └─540389 "smbd: cleanupd "

Sep 12 17:09:52 Wonderland systemd[1]: Starting smbd.service - Samba SMB Daemon...
Sep 12 17:09:53 Wonderland update-apparmor-samba-profile[540361]: grep: /etc/appa>
Sep 12 17:09:53 Wonderland update-apparmor-samba-profile[540367]: diff: /etc/appa>
Sep 12 17:09:53 Wonderland systemd[1]: Started smbd.service - Samba SMB Daemon.
alice@Wonderland:~$

Once Samba is installed, you will need to edit the Samba configuration file, smb.conf, to define the shared folder.

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Installing Disney Dreamlight Valley on a Nintendo switch

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:31:00 -0400

To install Disney Dreamlight Valley on a Nintendo switch using a download code, take the following steps:

On the Nintendo switch, select Nintendo eShop from the menu.
When you are presented with a QR code, sccan it and use it to sign into your account at account.nintendo.com.
Select Enter Code and enter the download code.
After the code is confirmed, select Redeem.

If you have been playing the game on another system and want access to your Cloud Save data, select Cloud Save, then, on the Nintendo switch, log into your Disney Dreamlight Valley account and select OK. Then, when the software is downloaded to the switch, on the switch, log into your Disney Dreamlight Valley account then select OK. Then, when you see a window displaying your email address, and options to reset your password or unlink the account on the switch, do neither, but instead go back to the Disney Dreamlight Valley game, which is on the left side of the screen, and select Continue.

Disney Dreamlight Valley: How to Enable Cloud Saves for Cross-Progression
By: Greysun Morales
Date: September 6, 2022

Determining the Linux device name that maps to a drive under Wine

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:32:00 -0400

You can view the drive letter mappings used by a Wine prefix from a command-line interface (CLI) on a Linux system by opening a terminal window and entering the command ls -l ~/wineprefix/dosdevices/ where wineprefix is the relevant Wine prefix. E.g., ls -l ~/.wine-collectorz/dosdevices/, if the Wine prefix is .wine-collectorz. I can limit the output to just drive mappings with ls -l ~/.wine-collectorz/dosdevices | grep "[a-z]:" | grep -E '/dev/|/run/media', which pipes the output of the ls through two grep commands. The first looks for lines that have a drive letter, i.e., one of the lowercase letters a through z followed by a colon, e.g., c:, while the second then looks for those lines that have either "/dev/" or "/run/media" in them.

alice@Wonderland:~$ ls -l ~/.wine-collectorz/dosdevices | grep "[a-z]:" | grep -E '/dev/|/run/media'
lrwxrwxrwx 1 alice alice  8 May  4 16:29 d:: -> /dev/sdc
lrwxrwxrwx+1 alice alice  8 May  4 16:29 e:: -> /dev/sr0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 alice alice  8 May  4 16:29 f:: -> /dev/sdd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 alice alice  8 May  4 16:29 g:: -> /dev/sde
lrwxrwxrwx 1 alice alice  8 May  4 16:29 h:: -> /dev/sdf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 alice alice  9 May  4 16:29 i:: -> /dev/sdi1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 alice alice  8 May  4 16:29 j:: -> /dev/sdg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 alice alice  8 May  4 16:29 k:: -> /dev/sdh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 alice alice  9 May  4 16:29 l:: -> /dev/sdg1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 alice alice  8 May  4 16:29 m:: -> /dev/sdi
lrwxrwxrwx 1 alice alice 43 Aug 26 17:47 n: -> /run/media/alice/MS 3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 alice alice  9 May  4 16:29 n:: -> /dev/sdg2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 alice alice  8 May  4 16:29 o:: -> /dev/sdj
lrwxrwxrwx 1 alice alice 47 Sep  3 19:49 p: -> /run/media/alice/Nifler
lrwxrwxrwx 1 alice alice  9 May  4 16:29 p:: -> /dev/sde1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 alice alice  9 May  4 16:29 q:: -> /dev/sde2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 alice alice  9 May  4 16:29 r:: -> /dev/sdc1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 alice alice 43 Jun 27 11:29 s: -> /run/media/alice/MS 2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 alice alice  9 May  4 16:29 s:: -> /dev/sdc2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 alice alice  9 May  4 16:29 t:: -> /dev/sdj1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 alice alice  9 May  4 16:29 u:: -> /dev/sdh1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 alice alice  9 May  4 16:29 v:: -> /dev/sdh2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 alice alice 48 Aug 26 17:47 w: -> /run/media/alice/Willow
lrwxrwxrwx 1 alice alice  9 May  4 16:29 w:: -> /dev/sdf1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 alice alice  9 May  4 16:29 x:: -> /dev/sdd1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 alice alice 43 Jun 27 11:29 y: -> /run/media/alice/MS 1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 alice alice  9 May  4 16:29 y:: -> /dev/sdd2
alice@Wonderland:~$

I can use the lsblk -o name,mountpoint,label,size to see the connection between the device designations and the labels on drives.

alice@Wonderland:~$ lsblk -o name,mountpoint,label,size
NAME                        MOUNTPOINT                         LABEL        SIZE
loop0                       /snap/canonical-livepatch/406                  13.5M
loop1                                                                     201.3M
loop2                       /snap/celluloid/322                            21.9M
loop3                       /snap/cups/1238                                47.9M
loop4                       /snap/bare/5                                      4K
loop5                       /snap/chromium-ffmpeg/112                       8.3M
<text snipped>
sda                                                                          20T
├─sda1                                                                       16M
└─sda2                      /run/media/alice MS 4          20T
sdb                                                                        29.3G
└─sdb1                      /run/media/alice             29.3G
sdc                                                                        14.6T
├─sdc1                                                                      499M
├─sdc2                                                                      128M
├─sdc3                      /run/media/alice Windows     14.5T
└─sdc4                                                         Recovery    74.5G
sdd                                                                          20T
├─sdd1                                                                       16M
└─sdd2                      /run/media/alice MS Working    20T
sde                                                                        14.6T
└─sde1                      /run/media/alice Nifler      14.6T
sdf                                                                         4.5T
└─sdf1                      /run/media/alice Oak          4.5T
sdg                                                                        18.2T
├─sdg1                                                         EFI          200M
└─sdg2                      /run/media/alice MS 3        18.2T
sdh                                                                        25.5T
├─sdh1                                                         EFI          200M
└─sdh2                                                         MS 2        25.5T
sdi                                                                        25.5T
├─sdi1                                                         EFI          200M
└─sdi2                      /run/media/alice MS 1        25.5T
sdk                                                                        18.2T
├─sdk1                                                         EFI          200M
└─sdk2                      /run/media/alice YouTube     18.2T
sr0                                                                         4.1G
nvme0n1                                                                     1.8T
├─nvme0n1p1                 /boot/efi                                         1G
├─nvme0n1p2                 /boot                                             2G
└─nvme0n1p3                                                                 1.8T
  └─dm_crypt-0                                                              1.8T
    └─ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv /                                               1.8T
alice@Wonderland:~$

You can use the Wine Configuration Tool for a graphical user interface (GUI) view of drive mappings by using a command like WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine-collectorz winecfg.

alice@Wonderland:~$ WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine-collectorz winecfg
alice@Wonderland:~$

References:

How do I list Wine drive letter mappings?
By: Rovanion
Date: February 27, 2023
Stack Exchange - Unix & Linux

Creating and using a Wine prefix on an Ubuntu Linux system
Date: July 31, 2026

Registry values for Collectorz Movie Collector running under Wine

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:03:00 -0400

I needed to check the version and some other values for the Collectorz Windows desktop version of its Movie Collector database program which was running under Wine on a Linux system. You can view values that are stored in the Windows Registry under a Wine prefix by entering a command similar to

WINEPREFIX=$HOME/wineprefix wine
regedit

where wineprefix is the name of the Wine prefix. E.g., WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine-collectorz wine regedit. You can find the registry keys for Movie Collector under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Collectorz.com\Movie

You can check specific keys with reg query commands like the ones below, where the Wine prefix is .wine-collectorz, which show the version of Movie Collector, the location of the currently specified database, and the location where backups will be stored.

alice@Wonderland:~$ WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine-collectorz wine reg query "HKCU\Software\Collectorz.com\Movie\Version info" /v Version

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Collectorz.com\Movie\Version info
    Version    REG_SZ    23.3.5

alice@Wonderland:~$ WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine-collectorz wine reg query "HKCU\Software\Collectorz.com\Movie\Databases" /v CurrentDatabase

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Collectorz.com\Movie\Databases
    CurrentDatabase    REG_SZ    T:\Movie Collector\Movies.mvc

alice@Wonderland:~$ WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine-collectorz wine reg query "HKCU\Software\Collectorz.com\Movie\Folders" /v Backup

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Collectorz.com\Movie\Folders
    Backup    REG_SZ    I:\Movie Collector\Backup\

alice@Wonderland:~$

References:

Collectorz.com® Movie Collector for Windows - Getting Started
Collectorz.com

Creating and using a Wine prefix on an Ubuntu Linux system
Date: July 31, 2026
Windows Reg Query Command
Date: October 1, 2016

Importing Vcard contacts extracted from a PST file into Proton Mail using an Intermediate CSV file

Mon, 24 Aug 2026 22:00:00 -0400

Proton Mail provides end-to-end encrypted email. If you are transitioning to Proton Mail from another email application and need the contacts you had stored in the other application, Proton Mail provides the capability to import contacts stored in a Virtual Contact File (VCF) or a comma-separated values (CSV) file. VCF, aka vCard, files usually have a .vcf filename extension while .csv is the filename extension for CSV files. To import such files, in the Proton Mail application, click on the Contacts icon on the upper, right side of the Proton Mail window, then click on Import Contacts, then select "Import from .csv or Vcard", then click on the "Choose a file or drag it here" button.

If you want to extract contacts from a Microsoft Outlook Personal Storage Table .pst file, you can use the readpst utility to extract the contacts from the .pst file. A command such as readpst -cv -tc -o contacts_out your-outlook.pst can be used where contacts out is the output directory where you wish the utility to place the contacts (the output directory must exist prior to running the command) and your-outlook.pst is the location and name for the existing .pst file. E.g.:

alice@Wonderload:~/Documents$ readpst -cv -tc -o ~/Documents/contacts ~/Downloads/alice\@example.com.pst 
Opening PST file and indexes...
Processing Folder "Deleted Items"
Processing Folder "Inbox"
Processing Folder "Outbox"
Processing Folder "Sent Items"
Processing Folder "Suggested Contacts"
Processing Folder "Junk E-mail"
Processing Folder "Conversation Action Settings"
Processing Folder "Quick Step Settings"
Processing Folder "Drafts"
Processing Folder "Calendar"
Processing Folder "Contacts"
Processing Folder "Journal"
Processing Folder "Notes"
Processing Folder "Tasks"
	"Suggested Contacts" - 22 items done, 0 items skipped.
Processing Folder "RSS Feeds"
Processing Folder "~ Holly"
Processing Folder "HVIA Members"
	"alice@example.com" - 16 items done, 0 items skipped.
Processing Folder "Tutorials"
Processing Folder "HVIA Renters"
	"Tasks" - 0 items done, 5 items skipped.
	"HVIA Renters" - 1 items done, 0 items skipped.
	"HVIA Members" - 102 items done, 1 items skipped.
	"Tutorials" - 31 items done, 0 items skipped.
	"Contacts" - 127 items done, 4 items skipped.
	"Calendar" - 0 items done, 229 items skipped.
	"Inbox" - 0 items done, 297 items skipped.
	"Sent Items" - 0 items done, 341 items skipped.
	"~ Holly" - 0 items done, 399 items skipped.
alice@Wonderload:~/Documents$

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Importing an Outlook PST file into Evolution

Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:09:00 -0400

My wife wanted to transition from Microsoft Windows to Linux for privacy and performance reasons, so I installed Ubuntu Linux on her desktop system. She had been using Microsoft Outlook as an email client. I installed Evolution, which is available as a Debian package, as an alternative to Outlook. Evolution has the capability to import an Outlook Personal Storage Table (PST), though that did not work when I tried the process with the PST file Outlook was using under Microsoft Windows. But to try that process, when the Welcome window opens when you start Evolution, click on Cancel to close it. Then take the following steps:

Press the Alt+F keys to view the file menu, then select Import.
You can click on Next at the Evolution Import Assistant window to proceed with the import of the Outlook Personal Storage Table (PST) file.
For the Importer Type, choose "Import a single file" then click on Next.
At the Select a File window, navigate to the location of the PST file and select it. The file type in the file type field should automatically change to "Outlook personal folders (.pst)" instead of the default file type of "Berkeley Mailbox (mbox)"

If the option to select Outlook personal folders (.pst) is not in the drop down list of file types, you may need to install the plugin that allows Evolution to import .pst files. To check on the status of the PST plugin on an Ubuntu system, or another Debian distribution of Linux, use the command sudo apt install evolution-plugins evolution-plugin-pstimport.

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