Re: Very very slow Lilypond uninstall on Windows

[Nick Payne]

Patrick McCarty wrote:
> 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.
Yes, nearly all of the time of the uninstall is spent doing something in 
the \usr\docs dir structure, according to the path information shown in 
the uninstall dialog.

Nick