Woo Hoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Alan Kong wrote:

> Ingo wrote:
> >> http://forumsa.compuserve.com/gvforums/UK/default.asp?srv=povray
>
>   Hi, Ingo. The Official POV-Ray Home Page has also been updated to reflect
> the availability of v3.1d for many platforms.
>
> http://www.povray.org
>
> - Alan
> -----------------------------------------------
> "There's a poy-sun named Eunice?"
> - Judy (Barbra Streisand) in, "What's Up, Doc?"
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povray.org admin team schrieb in Nachricht
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>"Rudy Velthuis" <rve### [at] gmxnet> wrote:
>
>>I've never seen an uninstaller before, which also
>>uninstalls things it never installed. I was really mad!
>
>I've never seen it do this. It is only (supposed) to uninstall the things
it
>installed. Are you sure about this ? I've uninstalled POVWIN many, many
times,
>and it's always left detrius behind.

I am very sure. I also had a hard time believing it, but the entire
directory, including the subdirectories I made, was gone. This must be a
"glitch" in the Wise installer/uninstaller.

Normally, uninstallers then say: couldn't delete directory "blabla", and
leave it as it is. Unwise didn't do that here.

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Rudy Velthuis wrote in message <36d983db.0@news.povray.org>...
>
>I am very sure. I also had a hard time believing it, but the entire
>directory, including the subdirectories I made, was gone. This must be a
>"glitch" in the Wise installer/uninstaller.
>
>Normally, uninstallers then say: couldn't delete directory "blabla", and
>leave it as it is. Unwise didn't do that here.
>

Happend to me too, I lost my IRTC Entry Source files among other things :(,
at least I managed to upload the image before this disaster.

Peter H.

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>Happend to me too, I lost my IRTC Entry Source files among other things :(,
>at least I managed to upload the image before this disaster.

This is very worrying. Unwise is not supposed to do that ! Unfortunately we
have no control over it whatsoever - it's totally automatic and does what it
wants to do (though the new version, I believe, allows you to do a step by step
uninstall).

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I just went ahead and installed 3.1d over the old installation (had my
reasons). Everything _seems_ to be working normally. This should prevent
such disasters, since nothing is deleted, old files are simply overwritten.

Margus

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Peter Houston schrieb in Nachricht <36daf4b0.0@news.povray.org>...
>Rudy Velthuis wrote in message <36d983db.0@news.povray.org>...
>>
>>I am very sure. I also had a hard time believing it, but the entire
>>directory, including the subdirectories I made, was gone. This must be a
>>"glitch" in the Wise installer/uninstaller.
>>
>>Normally, uninstallers then say: couldn't delete directory "blabla", and
>>leave it as it is. Unwise didn't do that here.
>>
>
>Happend to me too, I lost my IRTC Entry Source files among other things :(,
>at least I managed to upload the image before this disaster.


Then your worse of than me. I only lost some unimportant scenes and some
downloaded utilities and/or scenes, which I can easily update or rewrite.

I did one thing out of the ordinary though: I chose custom uninstall (I
always do, when installing/uninstalling) and perhaps inadvertently selected
my directories too - I don't remember, actually. Did you do a standard or a
custom unistall?

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Rudy Velthuis

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Margus Ramst schrieb in Nachricht <36db1d8d.0@news.povray.org>...
>I just went ahead and installed 3.1d over the old installation (had my
>reasons). Everything _seems_ to be working normally. This should prevent
>such disasters, since nothing is deleted, old files are simply overwritten.
>
I will certainly do the same next time. Either that, or just install into a
completely new directory. I would have just done that, if the installer
hadn't warned me.

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Rudy Velthuis

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Rudy Velthuis wrote in message <36dbd69c.0@news.povray.org>...
>
>Then your worse of than me. I only lost some unimportant scenes and some
>downloaded utilities and/or scenes, which I can easily update or rewrite.


Luckily I've only beein using POV since December so this was the only real
loss for me,
but at the time I seriously thought about kicking something :)

>I did one thing out of the ordinary though: I chose custom uninstall (I
>always do, when installing/uninstalling) and perhaps inadvertently selected
>my directories too - I don't remember, actually. Did you do a standard or a
>custom unistall?

I also did a custom uninstall for the very reason I didn't want my
directories erased, I'm paranoid that way (a lot of good it did me), I can't
remember seing them listed when I selected those to be erased though.

Next time I'll copy everything to my ZIP Drive before I do anything like
this.

Peter H.

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Peter Houston schrieb in Nachricht <36dc07d7.0@news.povray.org>...

>Next time I'll copy everything to my ZIP Drive before I do anything like
>this.

I always promise to do the same too. And then, after a few successful
installations, forget about it again... Until the next loss of data. ;-)

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Rudy Velthuis

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