Uninstall deletes user created folders too

[John Colvin]

On Thursday, 9 January 2014 at 06:50:56 UTC, John J wrote:
> The Uninstall on Windows is deleting user created folders too! 
> :(
>
> I thought it's a good idea to uninstall the previous version of 
> D before I install the latest one, but when I did that, it 
> deleted the C:\D folder, including the sub-folders and files I 
> created under that "D" folder! :(
>
> This is most unusual behavior. Can someone please fix the 
> installer?
>
> And as I was panic, I made a quick search and installed Recuva 
> to undelete the files.. but sadly it overwrote the important 
> files I thought of recovering! (I guess I should have tried it 
> from a different partition or a USB stick).

This is the second time this has come up. While I agree that 
leaving the D folder intact would be a safe default, it still 
seems weird that anyone would put anything irreplaceable in that 
folder. In my mind I always saw it as the equivalent of putting 
something in a particular program's Program Files subdir, i.e. 
you're likely to see it wiped if you uninstall it.