[Package Issue]: CGSecurity.TestDisk is not being properly handled

[jfernandz]

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• [X] I have searched for my issue and not found a work-in-progress/duplicate/resolved issue.
• [X] I have not been informed if the issue is resolved in a preview version of the winget client.

Category of the issue

Installation issue.

Brief description of your issue

Package is not being properly installed/uninstalled.

Steps to reproduce

Run winget install CGSecurity.TestDisk

Check availability of newly created aliases.

They aren't available even after restarting pwsh.

Actual behavior

winget install CGSecurity.TestDisk will show you all new aliases created, but they don't work at all.

After winget uninstall CGSecurity.TestDisk you'll show some files will remain at %LOCALAPPDATA%/Microsoft/WinGet/Packages/

Expected behavior

winget install and winget uninstall should perform proper install/uninstall actions.

Environment

 winget --info
Administrador de paquetes de Windows v1.4.10173
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. Todos los derechos reservados.

Windows: Windows.Desktop v10.0.22621.1778
Arquitectura del sistema: X64
Paquete: Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller v1.19.10173.0

Registros: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\DiagOutputDir

Configuración de usuario: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\settings.json

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[Trenly]

This should be resolved on the latest 1.5-preview version of winget. Can you see if the newer version of the client fixes your issue?

You may have to uninstall, upgrade to the 1.5-preview, and then reinstall TestDisk

[jfernandz]

@Trenly thank you for your answer! 😄

I forgot to uninstall TestDisk before upgrading to 1-5-preview and right now it's not being properly uninstalled, when I use uninstall command it get stuck

> winget uninstall --verbose CGSecurity.TestDisk
Encontrado TestDisk [CGSecurity.TestDisk]
Iniciando la desinstalación de paquete...

So not sure what's the most proper way to uninstall it ... 😞

Also ... Not sure why winget doesn't use the system locale (which is set as en-US)

> Get-WinSystemLocale
LCID             Name             DisplayName
----             ----             -----------
1033             en-US            English (United States) 

[jfernandz]

GeekUninstaller.GeekUninstaller and its Force Removal option did a good work, and after installing TestDisk again with 1.5-preview of winget it works as expected 😄

But still not sure about the locale problem, should I open a specific issue for it? 🤔