That's just another mistake I have made. Sure, I did regular backups, but in cleaning up my external backup drive because it was running out of room, somehow I removed the 'Full backup', along with some of the 'Increment' backups.
Another valuable lesson learned. Graham On 21/01/2014 2:06 AM, William Boswell wrote: > Another reason not to put your media in the Legacy program folder. I would > think if your media was placed in My Documents under Legacy, the uninstall > would leave it alone. > > Backup often or get a separate hard drive for your data. I never depend on > one hard drive because sometimes they fail. > > I finally uninstalled Legacy 7.5 last night using the "unwise" method with no > problems. I didn't check any of the Windows files and only selected to > delete files associated with Legacy. > > Bill Boswell > > -----Original Message----- > From: Graham Lambert [mailto:gra...@bigpond.net.au] > Sent: Monday, January 20, 2014 2:07 AM > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Can't uninstall 7.5 > > > On 20/01/2014 8:26 AM, Paul Gray wrote: >> Bob, >> >> That did the trick, except that I had to use the custom uninstall. >> >> Executing unwise.exe gave me three options, Automatic, Custom, or Repair. I >> first did Automatic and got the same old behaviour it just deleted the >> install.log file. >> >> Copied the install.log file back, and executed Custom. It threw up a few >> screens asking whether I wanted to delete this or that. For those items that >> were windows files (e.g. dll's) I said No, for those that were obviously >> Legacy specific, I chose Yes. >> >> Seems to have worked! >> >> Paul Gray > I had to do all above myself to finally delete L7.5. Unfortunately though, > all my very precious media was deleted....permanently...how I am not sure? > All I remember is being frustrated that 7.5 was not being deleted properly at > first, and then later, finally agreeing to a "delete", bypassing the recycle > bin. Still trying to work out how and why :-( > > Graham Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
