Am Tue, 05 Nov 2013 23:24:02 +0100 schrieb "Orvid King" <blah38...@gmail.com>:
> On Tuesday, 5 November 2013 at 22:08:48 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: > > Ok, this is it: > > > > http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd_2.064.2-0_amd64.deb > > http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd-2.064.2-0.fedora.i386.rpm > > http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd-2.064.2-0.fedora.x86_64.rpm > > http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd_2.064.2-0_i386.deb > > http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd-2.064.2-0.openSUSE.i386.rpm > > http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd-2.064.2-0.openSUSE.x86_64.rpm > > http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd-2.064.2.exe > > http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.2.064.2.zip > > http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.2.064.2.dmg > > http://ftp.digitalmars.com/libphobos2-64_2.064.2-0_amd64.deb > > http://ftp.digitalmars.com/libphobos2-64_2.064.2-0_i386.deb > > Dear world: DO NOT use the windows installer if you have ANYTHING > other than the default installed files in your previous install > folder, because it will delete EVERYTHING. (and this isn't an > understatement, my C:/D folder is now entirely empty but for a > single git index which was locked by my IDE), this means I have > now lost my local checkouts of the D repos, my git-head dmd > install location, as well as my auto-build-install-test scripts, > and my local copy of my JSON work. Thankfully my JSON work wasn't > even the latest copy anyways. Deleting everything IS NOT > uninstalling. Stunned silence... You seem to have gotten away with only few losses. Thanks for sharing. I can only imagine what that would have done to someone who has no backups or online repositories for their code. I have to say though that I'm sometimes annoyed by accurate uninstallers that keep a directory because of a log file or modified configuration. I doesn't hurt to ask for a recursive deletion of the install directory. -- Marco