Home : Removing all the files of WineBottler and Wine

With Wine and WineBottler, there are the following files and folders:

The obvious

• Wine.app (this is where the windows environment lives in)
• WineBottler.app (the installer)
• When You generate a "Internet Explorer", there will be an "Internet Explorer X.0.app"

The hidden

As not all users have write privileges, and one should not alter app bundles, there are some other files that get created. They all reside where Apple proposes to store them:

The Preferences. Every OS X app stores it's preferences here:

• ~/Library/Preferences/org.kronenberg.Wine.plist (the Wine preferences)
• ~/Library/Preferences/org.kronenberg.WineBottler.plist (the WineBottler preferences)
• ~/Library/Preferences/org.kronenberg.bottler_Internet Explorer 6.0.plist (if you have installed IE6 for example)

The Application Support. If an OS X app needs to store additional Information that is not directly a document it's stored here (like calendars etc)

• ~/Library/Application Support/Wine (here you'll find all the working prefixes of the Apps you have created with WineBottler).

If You just used Wine.app without the Bottler, there is a default folder that get's created here:

• ~/Documents/Wine Files

Compared to other Wine/Darwine packages available on the net, we try to encapsulate everything in the app bundles. This way, no files get installed in your /usr or /opt and no environment variables get altered. To remove Wine, you have just to remove the files mentioned above. There will be a convenient uninstall script with on of the next releases as well to fully purge these files.

Bugs

There where some earlier builds that tried to recreate a folder that was needed to build the packages, in:

/Users/mike/Documents/Darwine/

This folder can be safely removed

Automatic remover

Here is a little helper to remove all the files WIne.app or WineBottler create: RemoveWine.zip