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 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.
In fact, thats not even a cygwin setup prompt. Rob, you ran something other than the current cygwin installer for sure... Cheers, Rob -- GPG key available at: http://members.aardvark.net.au/lifeless/keys.txt. ---
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