There's currently a bug where when you try to install DirectX for Modern Games into a bottle, it for some reason completely "clears out" your list of programs that you had installed (for example, Steam, and every game that was installed with it).
Shortcuts for all these programs are still in the directory, "Bottles/Steam/drive_c/users/crossover/Start Menu/Programs/Steam". Is there a way for CrossOver to rebuild the list of programs based on the contents of that directory?
I know about the ability to add a custom shortcut, but I really don't want to have to do that for every single program I've already installed.
I would have thought that the menu item "Clear and Rebuild Programs" would do this, however it does not. I'm actually not quite sure what that does?
I'm not seeing the issue with installing DirectX for Modern Games messing with launchers. Clear and Rebuild Programs affects the launchers are stored in <user name>/Applications/CrossOver.
I am going to try and detail all the steps for me that get to this result, but it does seem it revolves around this error message that I get just when trying to install "DirectX For Modern Games" into a new empty Windows 10 64-bit bottle:
The ‘<cxaiemisc.AIEPreAssoc object at 0x118c3ad60>’ task failed.
cxassoc:error: an error occurred while scanning the Windows associations
Continuing with the install may produce unpredictable results.
Options are cancel installation, skip this step, or try again.
If I skip, it appears to continue working fine. But I believe during this error is when it loses the list of programs.
Rather - the previous comment is the error I get when I begin the install for "DirectX for Modern Games".
After it is done installing, then it gives this similar but different error:
The ‘Refreshing the associations’ task failed.
cxassoc:error: an error occurred while scanning the Windows associations
Continuing with the install may produce unpredictable results.
Same options. Trying again does nothing. Skipping here causes the listed programs to go away.
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