From: mike <mikereape@onetel.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: clean uninstall
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2017 22:12:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <400100dd-4026-3ffd-c597-a02cbd8e361b@onetel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <96ad6413-4cdb-4bba-0731-b732e0d72f08@onetel.com>
On 28/07/2017 15:13, mike wrote:
> On 28/07/2017 15:06, Ken Brown wrote:
>> On 7/28/2017 9:58 AM, mike wrote:
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> I have deleted all but var and dev from my C:\cygwin folder (which
>>> was quite painful and time-consuming BTW) and then moved the cygwin
>>> folder to my Documents folder and then deleted a Cygwin desktop icon
>>> and two Cygwin folders from my Start > All Programs menu. Is that
>>> sufficient to give me a clean uninstall so that I can do a brand new
>>> Cygwin install without problems? I did it that way because I
>>> couldn't figure out any other way of uninstalling Cygwin.
>>
>> https://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all
>>
>> Ken
>>
>
> Thank you Ken for your lightning fast reply. I did google for the
> answer but couldn't narrow it down to what I was looking for. I am
> sure that that is the definitive answer. Thank you very much. I will
> do it.
>
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>
I have deleted everything in C:\cygwin that I could figure out how to
and then moved the cygwin folder to my Documents folder. I managed to
delete everything before the move except for what became
C:\Users\Mike\Documents\cygwin\dev\nul and
C:\Users\Mike\Documents\cygwin\var\log\sshd.log. I can't for the life
of me figure out how to get rid of the dev folder which tells me when I
try to "Invalid MS-DOS function" or the var folder which tells me when I
try to "Try Again" and that the folder is shared. It's just two files
and a few nested folders.
I would be very grateful for any help. I'm trying to do this the right
way because I don't want to get bit again when I try to do the fresh
selective install because of something lying around from previous
installs. I want to start from scratch.
Thanks in advance
Mike
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-29 12:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-28 18:43 mike
2017-07-28 19:52 ` Ken Brown
2017-07-28 19:58 ` mike
2017-07-30 22:12 ` mike [this message]
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