On 1/9/14, John Colvin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday, 9 January 2014 at 06:50:56 UTC, John J wrote: >> The Uninstall on Windows is deleting user created folders too! >> :( >> >> I thought it's a good idea to uninstall the previous version of >> D before I install the latest one, but when I did that, it >> deleted the C:\D folder, including the sub-folders and files I >> created under that "D" folder! :( >> >> This is most unusual behavior. Can someone please fix the >> installer? >> >> And as I was panic, I made a quick search and installed Recuva >> to undelete the files.. but sadly it overwrote the important >> files I thought of recovering! (I guess I should have tried it >> from a different partition or a USB stick). > > This is the second time this has come up. While I agree that > leaving the D folder intact would be a safe default, it still > seems weird that anyone would put anything irreplaceable in that > folder. In my mind I always saw it as the equivalent of putting > something in a particular program's Program Files subdir, i.e. > you're likely to see it wiped if you uninstall it. >
I keep my git head version of D, and consequentially, my single-click update & build script, in my C:\D folder, and I think that it is the best place to put it.
