bobby_2010 sent the following at Friday, September 17, 2010 4:19 AM >hi, i am trying to completely delete cygwin from my system, as it is >taking up too much hard disk space. i followed the instructions at >the cygwin.com FAQ by first removing any subscribed services. this >worked fine. then, i went on to delete the c:\cygwin folder. but i >received 2 warning messages, asking me if i want to delete 'copying' and >'changelog' which are both system files and that deleting them might >affect other programs. after choosing not to delete either, the dialog >box 'error deleting file or folder' appears, stating 'cannot remove >folder help: the directory is not empty'. > >should i delete these 2? and any other such warnings thereafter? thanks.
Yes, delete everything. They only affect cygwin. - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
