[Bug]: CKAN doesn't delete mods after i delete them manually

[gamergab]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

Operating System

Windows 11

CKAN Version

1.34.0

Games

KSP 1

Game Version

1.12.5

Did you make any manual changes to your game folder (i.e., not via CKAN)?

Deleted all the mods manually

Describe the bug

I expected CKAN to go through everything and delete them all as if nothing happened but it gives me error during installation for some reason.

Steps to reproduce

1. Delete all mods manually, leaving only squad and squadexpansion folders in gamedata
2. go into ckan and uncheck all mods
3. press apply

Relevant log output

No response

[HebaruSan]

Hi @gamergab, please show us the error it gives you. Without that, we can't really do anything with this report.

[gamergab]

Here it is. Le jeu. 14 déc. 2023 à 13:58, HebaruSan ***@***.***> a écrit :

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Hi @gamergab <https://github.com/gamergab>, please show us the error it gives you. Without that, we can't really do anything with this report. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#3954 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/BEV3I5OHJG3NLZKQJ3DSEOLYJND4BAVCNFSM6AAAAABAVKGSTOVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMYTQNJWGQYTINBQGE> . You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[HebaruSan]

Hi @gamergab, thanks for responding, but it looks like whatever you tried to send didn't come through. I think email attachments are not automatically posted into GitHub issues. So we'll still need the information about the error to get started here.

[gamergab]

[HebaruSan]

Noting this here because this possibility was absolutely considered during development of that error mesage:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.io.file.delete?view=netframework-4.8#remarks

If the file to be deleted does not exist, no exception is thrown.

[gamergab]

Is there a fix for this? i reinstalled the game and ckan to no avail?

[HebaruSan]

Patient: Doctor, it hurts when I do this.
Doctor: Then don't do that!

For now the workaround is to not delete files manually.

[gamergab]

but how do i install mods with CKAN now if i can't uncheck the boxes? Le jeu. 14 déc. 2023 à 14:37, HebaruSan ***@***.***> a écrit :

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Patient: Doctor, it hurts when I do this. Doctor: Then don't do that! For now the workaround is to not delete files manually. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#3954 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/BEV3I5MZXXMI2OG5X3NE75TYJNIPBAVCNFSM6AAAAABAVKGSTOVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMYTQNJWGQ3DKOBTGE> . You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[HebaruSan]

As a workaround, you could open the <Game Root>/CKAN folder and rename registry.json to something else (or delete it, but renaming is safer in case you want to recover the data). This will make CKAN forget everything that was installed.

Or you could wait a day or two for the next CKAN release that will have this fixed.