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From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
To: "Rob Clack" <rnc AT sanger DOT ac DOT uk>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: upgrade question
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 11:22:46 +0100
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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.


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