On Thursday, 9 January 2014 at 13:28:46 UTC, Orvid King wrote:
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.
sure, it's neat. But still, I would never do it myself.
Installers and uninstallers are notorious for touching more than
they need to.
