I’m running Linux Mint. Lutris is the program I use to run Scrivener. I have functionality will all the features I’ve been using until I tried compiling. The compile menu worked the same way it did when I was using Windows 10 previously, but then the compiled file is nowhere to be found. Except, when I go to compile again, the first compiled file is visible when you’re given a choice of where to put the new compiled file. I made invisible files visible and ran a search in the file explorer, and still can’t find the file. I even checked the “open compiled document in default application” but nothing opened after the compiling screen closed. Anyone have any ideas of (1) if those compiled files actually exist and (2) if so, how do I find them anywhere other than the file selection menu during compilation?
The Wine “system” file save/open dialogue does leave a bit to be desired, such as missing any kind of path printout at the top. There is a way of finding out where you are though. If you right-click on file or folder in the list you’ll see an option to view properties, and among the metadata given is a Location field. If for some reason there is nothing in the list, you can click the Up button. Of note everything inside of a Wine instance is going to be seeing “Windows” paths rather than your whole system, so you kind of have to know where the container is itself, to extrapolate where “C:” is. But I don’t tend to ever compile anything to C: anyway, as that is going to be somewhere buried in a configuration folder.
It might be more useful to run winecfg, and in the “Desktop Integration” tab, make sure the folder mappings in the lower half there are set usefully. For example, pairing its Desktop with your actual Linux desktop folder means you can add links to useful folders there, that will be shared by Scrivener and show up in the file dialogue sidebar even. I also changed the Documents folder to my main working folder.
Beyond those basic hard-coded locations, in the Drives tab you can also make up drive letters that point to specific useful places. The paths you give there should point to valid system paths. A default (I believe) is X: pointing to your main user folder, which is handy to remember. You can type X: and Enter to navigate to the top level of your user folder from within Scrivener’s file saving dialogues, and then navigate down to where you actually want to save stuff. But I have a few other letters I use for common output locations.
By the way, as for finding things, I don’t know about using Wine’s File Explorer, I’ve never used that and would be surprised if it has any kind of search engine. Mint may have something better automatically installed for global fast file searching against an index. Of course there is always the slow but dirt basic and reliable `find ~ -iname “something_from_the_name_I_remember” CLI command.