yarle won't uninstall in Windows 10

[ercbk]

Was going to try to update yarle, but I couldn't uninstall my current version. Every time I try to uninstall I get the message that yarle is running and I need to stop it before I can uninstall. I didn't have it open and I couldn't find the process running. I restarted Windows in safe mode, but the same problem persisted. Unless you have some other ideas, I guess the only way to remove it is by deleting the files manually. If that's the case, I was hoping you could tell me where all the files I need to delete are located.
Thank you

yarle 5.1.2
Windows 10 Pro, version 22H2, build 19045.4046

[github-actions]

Yihaa, thank you for reporting me this issue and to let me improve Yarle!

[akosbalasko]

Hi @ercbk,
Please try to kill the process it should be named yarle or yarle-evernote-to-md. Once the process is killed, there is no chance to have something left running that prevents uninstall.

[ercbk]

I already tried that. There was no process with the name "yarle" in it.

[akosbalasko]

that's strange because I tested it too on Windows, and I have it. something like electron or npx?

[ercbk]

Are you saying your able to reproduce the issue? And if you're asking whether I have a process with something like electron or npx in the name, then I do not.

[ercbk]

I've seen the name of the yarle process when I'm using it. If that's the process that the uninstaller thinks is running, it isn't running.

[akosbalasko]

nope nope, I cannot reproduce the issue, I have the process in the Task Manager on Windows.

[akosbalasko]

getting back to the original problem: Yarle is being installed by executing the itself, it unpacks and installs all the dependencies and everyting under of a folder (I don't exactly know the folder name, probably yarle-evernote-to-md) within %AppData% . Could you pls check that folder ?

[ercbk]

Yeah it's in appdata/roaming. So just (hopefully) delete that folder?

[akosbalasko]

Yes, it should work.

[akosbalasko]

@ercbk any news?

[ercbk]

I got it uninstalled. I ended up noticing that the folders I removed were only around 150MB (cache and installer) when Apps & Features said the program size was around 465MB. So I hadn't deleted the main program. Found the main program and deleted it. Went back to Apps & Features, Windows said that it couldn't find it and must be uninstalled. Then, I installed the latest version, and it works. So all is well. Thank you.

Locations

• AppData\local\programs # main program
• AppData\Roaming\yarle-evernote-to-md # caching
• AppData\Local\yarle-evernote-to-md-updater # installer

Shortcuts (just for completeness)

• AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
• ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs