On Thursday, 9 January 2014 at 12:29:54 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
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.
Before it was because Walter used Jordi's installer which runs the uninstaller prior to installing (which is a good idea usually). I wish I had realized then that having Walter switch it back over to the regular installer wasn't really a true fix for the heart of this problem since the regular installer also removed the entire directory structure.
