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Issue 14287 - D uninstaller nukes the entire D installation folder, including any user files
Summary: D uninstaller nukes the entire D installation folder, including any user files
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: D
Classification: Unclassified
Component: installer (show other issues)
Version: D2
Hardware: All Windows
: P2 critical
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Reported: 2015-03-15 17:03 UTC by Vladimir Panteleev
Modified: 2022-12-17 10:40 UTC (History)
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Description Vladimir Panteleev 2015-03-15 17:03:17 UTC 
The D1 and D2 Windows uninstallers currently do a recursive rmdir on the installation directory:

  RMDir /r "$INSTDIR\dmd2"
  RMDir "$INSTDIR"

Two users who I've introduced to D have now pointed this out. Although no important data is lost, this is still rather unpleasant.

Ideally, we should only delete those files that we have installed, if they have not changed since installation. Deleting only the list of files that have been installed would also be acceptable.

For the moment, I've created a PR to warn users before the RMDir is executed:

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/installer/pull/121