Re: Very very slow Lilypond uninstall on Windows

[Patrick McCarty]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Graham Percival
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 02:18:14PM -0800, Patrick McCarty wrote:
>> > On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Graham Percival
>> > <address@hidden> wrote:
>> >> Maybe I misunderstand... windows takes 30 minutes to delete a
>> >> known list of files?
>>
>> Well, there is a list of files in files.txt, but most of those files
>> don't even exist in a LilyPond installation on Windows.
>
> Really?  Huh.  To find out if lilypad.exe has been copied, I just
> grep files.txt; that seems to work.  (i.e. whenever people
> complain that it's missing, I go back and discover that it's not
> listed in files.txt)

I should have said "about half" of the files.  Most (if not all) of
the nonexistent files are supposed to be in the "\usr\docs\"
hierarchy.  The directory structure exists, but the files aren't
there.

-Patrick