Wonderful, merçi beaucoup, Sylvain, that worked. Didn't realise this could be so easy. Cygwin documentation / FAQ people, maybe this would be wise to incorporate somewhere in the uninstall documentation on your website, as I suspect all users running winXP and higher experience these problems when having chacged file ownership. Thanks again.
Remko -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sylvain RICHARD Sent: vrijdag 8 februari 2008 10:47 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Uninstalling Cygwin Remko Arts wrote: > Hello, > > I've installed Cygwin with the ssh package. Now I want to uninstall > Cygwin, but get the message Windows is unable to delete .ssh. Seems > some exotic file protection is in place Windows can't handle. The only > removal instructions I can find for windows are "delete the complete > cygwin directory", which is, as mentioned impossible by normal means. > Any suggestions? > Are you running as the same user the .ssh file is for? Anyway, you can reset the ACLs to delete the file (approximative translations, I run a French version of windows): - In explorer, do a right click on the offending file(s) - Properties - In the Security tab, click Advanced - Reset ownership if necessary (third tab). If you do this, it may be necessary to close and reopen the "advanced" security properties - Set permissions as resuired in the first tab (grant yourself "full control" for example) If what you see does not match what I describe, beware of "simple file permissions" in tools/options/dsplay. Hope that helps Sylvain RICHARD -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
