Rob Clack wrote: > Thank you for this. However, I managed to find a disaster in there > despite everything. :o( > > I renamed the whole e:\cygwin tree to e:\old_cygwin. I had to rerun the > install several times, for reasons I need not go into. Eventually it > got to the end and said "I found an old cygwin, shall I delete it?" I > assumed it meant one from the immediately previous installation, which > had also completed, but with errors, so innocently pressed "OK". > Mistake. It deleted the whole e:\old_cygwin tree, including a load of > stuff that wasn't actually cygwin at all and was only there for > historical reasons. > > And none of it is recoverable, nor backed up, of course. Boo hoo.
Huh? Cygwin setup.exe doesn't do this. It only deletes old cygwin1.dll files. Not directory trees. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/