Wine Prefix got deleted?

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So I am using Linux Mint, and I went to Lutris today to browse some games and some reason ALL of my thumbnail icons were blank. I am not sure why.

When I try to add a game manually I get this message, “Warning: Some wine configuration options can not be applied, if no prefix can be found.” When I try to configure Wine on an installed game I get the error, “No Wine prefix path given.” I don’t know what or how this got changed.

I have read that the default prefixes are in locations:
/home/[username]/.local/share/lutris/runners/winesteam/prefix
/home/[username]/.local/share/lutris/runners/winesteam/prefix64

Which I did not have, so I created them, but did nothing. Should I just uninstall Lutris and start over? Is there any way to fix this?

My full error log has this:
"File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lutris/exception_backstops.py”, line 108, in error_wrapper
return handler(*args, **kwargs)

File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lutris/gui/widgets/game_bar.py”, line 266, in on_link_button_clicked
callback(button)

File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lutris/runners/wine.py”, line 881, in run_wineconsole
self._run_executable(“wineconsole”)

File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lutris/runners/wine.py”, line 859, in _run_executable
wineexec(

File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lutris/runners/commands/wine.py”, line 307, in wineexec
create_prefix(prefix, wine_path=wine_bin, arch=arch, runner=runner)

File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lutris/runners/commands/wine.py”, line 106, in create_prefix
raise ValueError(“No Wine prefix path given”)

ValueError: No Wine prefix path given"

I also cannot connect to the servers. “Unable to connect to server https://lutris.net/api/installers/”

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Hello, I think I managed to find a fix for this (at least on my PC with Linux Mint 22). When you go into the “Configure” menu for a game, it gives you an option to input a “Wine Prefix”. I input /home/[username]/.wine and this seems to have resolved the problem. Hopefully this works for you too!

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You’ve replied to a 9 month old thread, so it’s probably dead.

They had telling problems as well - not being able to connect to the API to get the install script is going to cause a problem when trying to create a WINE prefix.

Pointing it at your system default (/home/youruser/.wine) won’t solve the install issue.

Also, unless you make a conscious decision to install your game there - a poor choice since it is the default and everything messes with it - then it won’t be finding the game executable anyway.