From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 97212 invoked by alias); 29 Jul 2017 12:14:35 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 97176 invoked by uid 89); 29 Jul 2017 12:14:34 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=installs, life, brand, documents X-HELO: smtp-out-1.talktalk.net Received: from smtp-out-1.talktalk.net (HELO smtp-out-1.talktalk.net) (62.24.135.65) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sat, 29 Jul 2017 12:14:31 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.2] ([79.66.0.6]) by smtp.talktalk.net with SMTP id bQdYd1j9diSHabQdYduZm9; Sat, 29 Jul 2017 13:14:29 +0100 X-Spam: 0 X-OAuthority: v=2.2 cv=UoATD64B c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=IUz/5zGOwx1AJbwgoa8h8g==:117 a=IUz/5zGOwx1AJbwgoa8h8g==:17 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=w_pzkKWiAAAA:8 a=0P3kJKgIyte1tvq06K4A:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=daI9ojH3vpgA:10 a=buB1NfXUTBUA:10 a=IfQ-iFkkCvMA:10 a=sRI3_1zDfAgwuvI8zelB:22 Subject: Re: clean uninstall To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <96ad6413-4cdb-4bba-0731-b732e0d72f08@onetel.com> From: mike Message-ID: <400100dd-4026-3ffd-c597-a02cbd8e361b@onetel.com> Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2017 22:12:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <96ad6413-4cdb-4bba-0731-b732e0d72f08@onetel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfBLFaJMTVM9VKaRo6TiIyV9gTZjMYOMVFWQ86QFCcNrgUQdO6c989BnM8S3dNaySEPd7owHzVjFH4idcFnmxiRcnXqGutCD5x5sE4GjRSsCnbHRjbRHV 0aeFNUT25cCEVP5lzgslmipBkm3IrWolXhuzFYObr6qKxffpVfFAaz8K X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-07/txt/msg00425.txt.bz2 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. > >> -- >> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html >> FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ >> Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html >> Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >> >> > 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 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple