Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: upgrade question From: Robert Collins To: Max Bowsher Cc: Rob Clack , cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: <004301c355bb$5b8f0210$5a9f883e@starfruit> References: <3F216B94.1070206@cygwin.com> <3F26392B.1040809@sanger.ac.uk> <004301c355bb$5b8f0210$5a9f883e@starfruit> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-6yuCjQ3iRJSsLKks9OLN" Message-Id: <1059474731.6088.18.camel@lifelesswks> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: 29 Jul 2003 20:32:12 +1000 --=-6yuCjQ3iRJSsLKks9OLN Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 20:22, Max Bowsher wrote: > 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 th= e > > 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. >=20 > Huh? Cygwin setup.exe doesn't do this. It only deletes old cygwin1.dll > files. Not directory trees. In fact, thats not even a cygwin setup prompt. Rob, you ran something other than the current cygwin installer for sure... Cheers, Rob --=20 GPG key available at: http://members.aardvark.net.au/lifeless/keys.txt. --- --=-6yuCjQ3iRJSsLKks9OLN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/Jk0rI5+kQ8LJcoIRAkEtAJ9+ZJupBsRCa3IWqIWTKVsN3Q3B3ACgq2zW 8OK7s82weASV4aXiKuaVbaQ= =9+jS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-6yuCjQ3iRJSsLKks9OLN--