the remove feature just deleted my entire downloads folder, everything, all of my downloads are gone.

[doodlebob9000]

The remove feature just deleted the entirety of my downloads. all of my downloads are gone.

Question

why does the remove feature work like that? when i downloaded it and installed it into my downloads folder, i forgot to put it into one folder so the folders of the jdk were all in my downloads. i clicked the installer again and it gave me three options, i chose remove cause i wanted to install it again this time with yknow... all the folders of the jdk actually being in one folder in my downloads folder cause i dont want to put it on my programs folder. waited for the remove to be finished and when i installed it again, i found that my downloads are now completely gone. i had word documents and pdf files as well as pptx's on there and because i didnt know that the remove feature would delete EVERYTHING inside the folder where you installed it, regardless if it came from the installer or not, all my downloaded files are now gone. im mad but i know it was my mistake so yeah, but still, why does the remove feature not just... remove the folders that were installed by the installer instead of deleting everything inside the folder where the folders where installed?

[karianna]

@doodlebob9000 Firstly, can you check your Recycle Bin and see if you can restore those deleted files? Hopefully they're still in there.

Can you tell us which installer you were using? (The exact version).

[doodlebob9000]

@karianna the remove feature basically perm deleted everything without putting it in the recycle bin because i guess the remove feature thought that the files that were in my download were part of the files for the jdk.

the exact folder i was using was my downloads folder. like the actual, built in, downloads folder. like i said, it was my mistake so yeah. also sorry for the late reply! i was busy with uni and stuff

[karianna]

All good! I'll get the team to look at the logic and see if it can be changed to be more of a scalpel and eliminate files, or perhaps warn if folks are installing in a non-std location.