.lnk parsing for absolute targets is unreliable

[jlu5]

Many Windows shortcuts (and all that link to a different partition) use absolute paths. These links are broken 90% of the time because the partition mapping in ~/.wine/dosdevices/ rarely ends up matching a Windows configuration without prior configuration. Also, requiring a Wine prefix to already exist when thumbnailing is unreliable, especially when it isn't documented everywhere.

Unfortunately, I don't see a great fix for this because the path system on *nix and Windows are so inherently different...

[katakombi]

Please have a look at a script of mine which I use to find the executables unix path for all installed .lnk files in a wine installation.
You can convert between windows and unix paths using winepath
https://github.com/dolmades-docker/base/blob/e1d9bcd741e8206b787d0d311386dca2ff69feeb/targetLauncher#L20