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SDK installer leaves empty directories so it appears that an older SDK is still installed

See original GitHub issue

Describe the bug

I had VS 2019.6.0 Preview 4.0 installed. I ran the VS installer & upgraded tp 2019.6.0 Preview 5.0 Remnants of the previous 015115 that were not properly removed make it look like that SDK is still installed.

The entry in “Control Panel/Programs and Features” is gone, it is just the empty directories

To Reproduce

Per the bug description…

Further technical details

C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk>dir
 Volume in drive C is Windows
 Volume Serial Number is 463F-F727

 Directory of C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk

04/30/2020  03:57 PM    <DIR>          .
04/30/2020  03:57 PM    <DIR>          ..
01/16/2020  12:38 PM    <DIR>          2.1.803
04/30/2020  02:47 PM    <DIR>          3.1.300-preview-015115
04/30/2020  03:57 PM    <DIR>          3.1.300-preview-015135
01/16/2020  12:38 PM    <DIR>          NuGetFallbackFolder
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
               6 Dir(s)  501,579,292,672 bytes free

C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk>dir 3.1.300-preview-015115 /s
 Volume in drive C is Windows
 Volume Serial Number is 463F-F727

 Directory of C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\3.1.300-preview-015115

04/30/2020  02:47 PM    <DIR>          .
04/30/2020  02:47 PM    <DIR>          ..
04/30/2020  02:47 PM    <DIR>          Sdks
               0 File(s)              0 bytes

 Directory of C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\3.1.300-preview-015115\Sdks

04/30/2020  02:47 PM    <DIR>          .
04/30/2020  02:47 PM    <DIR>          ..
04/30/2020  02:47 PM    <DIR>          Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Razor
               0 File(s)              0 bytes

 Directory of C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\3.1.300-preview-015115\Sdks\Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Razor

04/30/2020  02:47 PM    <DIR>          .
04/30/2020  02:47 PM    <DIR>          ..
04/24/2020  07:38 AM    <DIR>          tools
               0 File(s)              0 bytes

 Directory of C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\3.1.300-preview-015115\Sdks\Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Razor\tools

04/24/2020  07:38 AM    <DIR>          .
04/24/2020  07:38 AM    <DIR>          ..
04/30/2020  02:47 PM    <DIR>          netcoreapp3.0
               0 File(s)              0 bytes

 Directory of C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\3.1.300-preview-015115\Sdks\Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Razor\tools\netcoreapp3.0

04/30/2020  02:47 PM    <DIR>          .
04/30/2020  02:47 PM    <DIR>          ..
               0 File(s)              0 bytes

     Total Files Listed:
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
              14 Dir(s)  501,579,292,672 bytes free
C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk>dotnet --info
.NET Core SDK (reflecting any global.json):
 Version:   3.1.300-preview-015135
 Commit:    0b3c572e97

Runtime Environment:
 OS Name:     Windows
 OS Version:  10.0.18363
 OS Platform: Windows
 RID:         win10-x64
 Base Path:   C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\3.1.300-preview-015135\

Host (useful for support):
  Version: 3.1.2
  Commit:  916b5cba26

.NET Core SDKs installed:
  2.1.803 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]
  3.1.300-preview-015115 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]
  3.1.300-preview-015135 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]

.NET Core runtimes installed:
  Microsoft.AspNetCore.All 2.1.16 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.All]
  Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 2.1.16 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
  Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 3.1.2 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
  Microsoft.NETCore.App 2.1.16 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App]
  Microsoft.NETCore.App 3.1.2 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App]
  Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 3.1.2 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App]

To install additional .NET Core runtimes or SDKs:
  https://aka.ms/dotnet-download

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 3 years ago
Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

1reaction

terrajobstcommented, May 1, 2020

@pranavkm @Pilchie

@Pilchie this is likely something the installer folks need to investigate. However, dotnet/installer doesn’t show up as an option in the issue transfer list. Do you know why that might be? @terrajobst has been working on getting permissions set up for that. @marcpopMSFT in the meantime.

Should be fixed now

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KalleOlaviNiemitalocommented, Aug 20, 2021

Upgrading .NET SDK from 6.0.100-preview.6.21355.2 to 6.0.100-preview.7.21379.14 likewise left an empty directory.

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> dotnet --list-sdks
2.1.525 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]
6.0.100-preview.6.21355.2 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]
6.0.100-preview.7.21379.14 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> dir 'C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk'


    Directory: C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk


Mode                 LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                 -------------         ------ ----
d-----         11.8.2021     14.40                2.1.525
d-----         18.8.2021      2.50                6.0.100-preview.6.21355.2
d-----         18.8.2021      2.48                6.0.100-preview.7.21379.14
d-----         11.8.2021     14.40                NuGetFallbackFolder


PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> dir 'C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.100-preview.6.21355.2\'
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> rd 'C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.100-preview.6.21355.2'
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> dotnet --list-sdks
2.1.525 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]
6.0.100-preview.7.21379.14 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]