I recently attempted to uninstall PsychoPy and the uninstaller appeared to be deleting files that were not a part of the install. It stayed stuck part way through the uninstall process for about 15 minutes and when I checked I realized it was deleting files from all sorts of places in my C drive. I stopped the uninstall and have restarted my computer and confirmed that a significant amount of files are now missing from my computer. Has anyone had this issue? Does anyone know how I would go about recovering the files?
One of my students experienced this today. Did you lose files from your desktop? Was there anything systematic about what was deleted? I had a look in the student’s recycle bin but there was nothing new there.
The last step of the uninstaller process is to remove the folder that you installed to (typically C:\Program Files\PsychoPy). No other files are touched. The only way I can imagine that other files were touched would be if you installed the psychopy executable into a folder with other files rather than in its own folder
Something weird just happened to me as well, very similar to what OP described. It took a really long time and when I checked it looked like it was deleting files that were under no circumstance in the PsychoPy folder or anywhere near (some stuff in my Dropbox folder, for example). I wasn’t able to quit out of the uninstall, so I forced a PC restart (which worked). After the restart, I checked the files, and I think most stuff is still there (including the Dropbox files it claimed to be deleting when I stopped it), except (notably and strangely) for the Users/xxx/Documents and Downloads folders. I also weirdly got logged out of everything (e.g., Dropbox, Chrome, Unity Editor, Steam) – probably to do with some of the missing folders? I’m pretty sure nothing else was going on on my PC at the time that would have caused this.