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Status: WontFix
Owner:
grt@chromium.org
Closed: Jul 2016
Cc:
georgesak@chromium.org
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OS: Windows
Pri: 3
Type: Bug



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Chrome does not delete disk cache directory during uninstall

Project Member Reported by zmin@chromium.org, May 11 2016 
Version: 52.0.2730.0 (Build from source)
OS: Windows 8.1

What steps will reproduce the problem?
(1) Install chrome
(2) Set DiskCacheDir group policy.
key:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome\
value:
  name: DiskCacheDir, type: REG_SZ, Data: C:\DiskCache

(3) Launch Chrome to generate some cache.
(4) Delete Chrome with option 'Also delete your browsing data' checked.

What is the expected output?
Disk cache directory is deleted with user data directory during uninstall.

What do you see instead?
Disk cache directory is not deleted.

Comment 1 by grt@chromium.org, May 12 2016

Components: Internals>Installer
Labels: OS-Windows
AFAICT, the uninstall prompt is Windows-specific. I'm not sure if other platforms have such a thing, so changing this to an OS=Win issue.

Comment 2 by chrisha@chromium.org, Jul 7 2016

Status: Assigned (was: Untriaged)
Assigning this to you grt@ to remove it from the sheriff triage list.

Comment 3 by grt@chromium.org, Jul 14 2016

Status: WontFix (was: Assigned)
I'm not sure it's worth trying to anything here if the supported way of configuring this is via policy. Config by policy is largely done by enterprise, which use system-level installs. Uninstalling a system-level install doesn't remove any user data since it's not feasible for Chrome's uninstaller to operate on individual user profile directories.

We can reconsider if setting the cache dir is extensively used for per-user installs.
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