On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Stan <[email protected]> wrote:

> I asked myself that same question, Eugen, so went to look. According to
> Pandora Recovery, the utility I am using to recover my lost files, in
> addition to deleting some 20k files from the My Documents folder, the
> uninstall deleted or overwrote ~10k files from other parts of the hard
> drive, including in the Windows System32 folder.
>
> You can see a screenshot here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/3440move
> networks 
> linux3...@n07/4354757450/<http://www.flickr.com/photos/34403...@n07/4354757450/>
>
>
> --- On *Sat, 2/13/10, Eugen Dedu <[email protected]>* wrote:
>
> From: Eugen Dedu <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Ekiga-list] destructive Ekiga Win-XP un-install
> To: "Ekiga mailing list" <[email protected]>
> Date: Saturday, February 13, 2010, 12:41 PM
>
> It said yes.
>
> So the question is: installing ekiga in My Documents folder removes My
> Documents folder upon uninstalling.
>
> Maybe ekiga considers that the installation folder is used only by ekiga
> and at uninstallation it removes it completely?
>
> -snip-
>
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I can see the uninstaller wiping out the folder it is installed to by
accident but the file you show in the screenshot is related to Exchange
(Maybe Outlook) and not Ekiga.

I don't have access to a Windows system to test with this weekend but it is
not impossible that the installer removes the whole folder it installs
itself to.
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