thanks, did as you said and nothing seems amiss.
Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: > > 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 > > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/warning-messages-while-deleting-cygwin-folder-tp29736133p29744165.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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
