Re: [Ekiga-list] destructive Ekiga Win-XP un-install

[Eugen Dedu <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>]

Stan wrote:
> Damien,
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> Thank you for responding, but your statement that it is impossible that the Ekiga uninstall deleted my files is preposterous. It did it right in front of my eyes.
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> If you don't believe me, please download Ekiga for Win XP and let it install in your computer's My Documents, and then uninstall it. The program will demonstrate it to you first hand.
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> Now I am trying to recover more than 30k files from more than 3k folders (mainly family and personal photos as well as business files and photos), and many hundreds are coming up corrupted and will not open.
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> Brushing this off as impossible is the height of irresponsibility.

For information:
snoopy:~/softs/ekiga$ grep -i documents ekiga-setup-3.2.6-release.exe
snoopy:~/softs/ekiga$

This means there is no string "Documents" or "documents" in the whole
file.  This reduces the chances that ekiga removes them...

> Stan
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> --- On Sat, 2/13/10, Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com> wrote:
> From: Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>
> Subject: Re: [Ekiga-list] destructive Ekiga Win-XP un-install
> To: "Ekiga mailing list" <ekiga-list gnome org>
> Date: Saturday, February 13, 2010, 9:19 AM
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> Ted, it is impossible that the uninstall process of Ekiga deleted all those files.