diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 74ae513..0000000
--- a/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-squashfs-root
-*.sh
-*.AppImage
diff --git a/appdwarf b/appdwarf
index 58e95db..e049bea 100755
--- a/appdwarf
+++ b/appdwarf
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ case "$1" in
         shift
         zzexe "$@" ;;
     --version | -v )
-        tput setaf 2; echo appdwarf 2022.07.13
+        tput setaf 2; echo appdwarf 2022.07.18
         tput setaf 6; echo Built by July 🏳️‍🌈; exit ;;
     -* | '' )
         tput setaf 2
@@ -114,14 +114,19 @@ if [ ! -d "$1" ]; then # directory doesn't exist, see if this is an appimage
     chmod +x "$1"
     rm -rf squashfs-root
 
-    if ! "$(realpath "$1")" --appimage-extract 2> /dev/null; then 
+    # this is a file, but it might be an existing dwarfs image
+    if dwarfsck -d0 -i"$1" 2> /dev/null; then
+        set -- "$@" --recompress=none
+    elif "$(realpath "$1")" --appimage-extract 2> /dev/null; then 
+        app="$(basename "$1" .AppImage)"
+        rm -rf "$1" "$app"
+        shift
+        set -- "$app" "$@"
+        mv squashfs-root "$1"
+    else
         tput setaf 4; echo "$1 is not an AppImage, it will be zzexe'd"
         zzexe "$@"
     fi
-
-    app="$(basename "$1" .AppImage)" shift
-    set -- "$app" "$@"
-    mv squashfs-root "$1"
 fi
 
 head="$(mktemp)"
diff --git a/apps/mkwine b/apps/mkwine
index 67a9974..551b7be 100755
--- a/apps/mkwine
+++ b/apps/mkwine
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ DIR=/tmp/appdwarf/$APP
 mkdir -p "$DIR"
 VER=Kron4ek/Wine-Builds
 [ "$1" = "proton" ] && VER=GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom && shift
-LINK=$(curl -L api.github.com/repos/$VER/releases | jq .[0].assets[1] | grep -om1 g.\*tar..z)
+LINK=$(curl -L api.github.com/repos/$VER/releases | jq .[0].assets[1] | grep -om1 git.\*tar..z)
 curl -L "$LINK" | bsdtar xf - -C"$DIR"
 mv "$DIR"/wine*/* "$DIR"/GE-Proton*/files/* "$DIR"
 t=winetricks; wget -O"$DIR"/bin/$t github.com/$t/$t/raw/master/src/$t