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## Importing from a wine prefix
Besides copy/move/leave, an app can be imported **from a wine prefix**: pick the prefix, then the app folder inside its `drive_c`. Nothing is copied — paths are stored relative to the prefix, so wine sees the app as if it were normally installed on `C:\` (registry entries pointing to `C:\...` keep working). Both layouts work: plain wine prefixes (`drive_c` at the top) and Proton-managed ones (`drive_c` under `pfx/`). The app stays tied to that prefix; removing the launcher entry never deletes files from the prefix. A prefix can be renamed later (Wine prefixes): the folder moves on disk and everything running in it follows the new name, because those paths are stored relative to the prefix. Imports keep the folder as it was: symlinks are recreated (rewritten to relative whenever the target is part of the launcher) and file permissions are carried over, so an imported game or build runs straight away.
Besides copy/move/leave, an app can be imported **from a wine prefix**: pick the prefix, then the app folder inside its `drive_c`. Nothing is copied — paths are stored relative to the prefix, so wine sees the app as if it were normally installed on `C:\` (registry entries pointing to `C:\...` keep working). Both layouts work: plain wine prefixes (`drive_c` at the top) and Proton-managed ones (`drive_c` under `pfx/`). The app stays tied to that prefix; removing the launcher entry never deletes files from the prefix. A prefix can be renamed later (Wine prefixes): the folder moves on disk and everything running in it follows the new name, because those paths are stored relative to the prefix. Edits wait for running apps: while anything from a prefix is playing, renaming or deleting it (and switching the default prefix away from an app that has none of its own) is refused with the name of the app to close first — wine keeps its registry and user files open in that folder. Deleting is also refused while a prefix still has apps registered in it, so an app is never silently orphaned into the default prefix. Imports keep the folder as it was: symlinks are recreated (rewritten to relative whenever the target is part of the launcher) and file permissions are carried over, so an imported game or build runs straight away.
## "Open with PLWL" in the file manager