Windows desktop install blows up the backups folder

Jorge

Something else… after instaling desktop v.2.0.10 I noticed that my backups folder had been wiped clean!!!! Luckily I backup all my backups into my NAS regularly but this just caused a gap in my backups from Feb 7 to Feb 23.
Could it be that now you are isntalling into the roaming folder isntead of the local folder? But anyhow installing and update should NOT wipe out the backups folder.

Jorge

@Jay It appears you released a new windows desktop app, and upon installing it now it again wiped out the entire backpus folder!!! This is something that needs fixing (is not an emergency but it should be fixed soon). My backups folder in my laptop is constantly backed up to my NAS, but many people will not do that, and wiping out their backups folder will remove any possibility of recovery from a failure.

Also, the installation of the desktop app this time took forever (obviously because it was removing a humongous backups folder). I was about to stop it because I thought it had stalled somehow. Luckily I didn’t and eventually it finished.

Jay

Wow, that’s really annoying. We don’t have anything in the installer that would make it specifically delete anything, but maybe that’s the default behavior that we need to override. I’ll look into that for the next update. Thanks for popping it back to my attention!

Jay

I’m about to release an update so I tested this myself and I can’t reproduce the installer deleting files. The installer configuration specifically does not delete appdata. Do you have an unusual configuration where your appdata is in a different place or something like that?

Jorge

Jay Yes My AppData folder is in the standard place C:\Users\JorgeD\AppData\Roaming however the Legend subfolder is a hardlink (junction) to another drive M:\Legend

Jorge

Jay Oh… and the BAckups folder under Legend is also another hardlink (junction) to another bigger drive f:\Backups\Moo.do Backup\Automatic Backups

I want to try the new functionality but Ill have to wait until Ive culled that folder so that I can install the new version without risking losing my backups again.