Uninstall deletes user created folders too

[Orvid King]

On 1/9/14, John Colvin <john.loughran.colvin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

I keep my git head version of D, and consequentially, my single-click
update & build script, in my C:\D folder, and I think that it is the
best place to put it.