microsoft
winget uninstall Microsoft.PowerToys --purge did not purge data
Microsoft PowerToys version
0.80.0 and 0.78.0
Installation method
WinGet
Running as admin
No
Area(s) with issue?
Settings
Steps to reproduce
Steps:
- I installed via winget, then imported my settings. I was prompted to upgrade to 0.80 after installing
- I then uninstalled via winget w/ the purge flag:
winget uninstall Microsoft.PowerToys --purge. - I then reinstalled the specific 0.78.0 version via winget and noticed that I had all my old settings without importing
- I did this steps to fix this bug: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/32143
Background: I like to start from a fresh, clean state - especially if I'm trying to reproduce an error. My configuration is backed up separately in a version-controlled repository.
I noticed that winget has a --purge flag (see https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues?q=is%3Aopen+label%3ACommand-Uninstall+purge for the very limited discussion in issues around that flag).
✔️ Expected Behavior
After uninstalling with --purge and reinstalling, my configuration should not load.
❌ Actual Behavior
After uninstalling with --purge and reinstalling, my configuration did load.
Other Software
No response
Hi @jcrben
I am not familiar with the --purge switch but from what I can understand from the docs it applies only to portable packages (PowerToys uses an MSI installer).
If you want to manually delete all settings after uninstalling PowerToys you can manually delete %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\PowerToys folder.
/needinfo
OK, I didn't realize that --purge didn't apply. Ideally winget could notify the user in such an instance.
Broadly, purge is a nice feature and these are both microsoft projects so msft could could figure out how to support it.
Feel free to close this