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The installer DELETES YOUR BACKUP FILES !!

jsimlo (Homepage) - February 17, 2007 - 7:23am

Very, very saddly, I have to report, that the current installer of the Miranda Portable 0.6.7 searches your drive and deletes other installations of miranda.

Just a few minutes ago, I have installed the Miranda Portable 0.6.7 on my usb drive (into a folder named "MirandaPortable"). On the same drive, in another folder (named "Miranda1"), there was my old installation of Miranda (which was not even the portable one, just a simple Miranda).. Now it is entirely gone, the "Miranda1" folder is empty.. The settings, my history, contacts, ..everythings deleted. I tried to undelete but it's of no good.

I read that the installation manual tells me to backup my settings before I install. Well, I did! I am pretty sure! So why the hell the installer touched that backup in other directory?? And who the hell wrote an installer that deletes OTHER applications??? Yes, the other Miranda was a DIFFERENT application by a DIFFERENT publisher.


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Please,

don't double post, this post and the one in the Firefox forum are basically the same. I have answered there.

http://portableapps.com/node/5225#comment-24214

Yours

Steve Lamerton

'...and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard...' JFK