Bug Missing Uninstall

Some Installs miss an Uninstall option although it looks like the Uninstaller is present. Any idea why? Using Hub 2.3.2.

e.g.

 

here more examples

 

For some reason only the minority of installs has an Uninstall option but I dont really see a pattern here? Could you explain?

 

If I remember correctly the Hub only give you an option to uninstall if you installed the said Unity version through Unity Hub. I guess you installed them outside of Hub and added them manually?

 

Nope havent done that for sure. I might have installed some of them via hub cli - maybe that is the issue here. Maybe someone can verify that

 

Hallo Basil!

Its a long time since I installed an editor without using the hub, so I'm pretty certain 2020.2 was also installed via Hub. Possibly via a CLI command, that I'm not sure of.

This is my editors.json:

Code (JavaScript):

1. {
2.     "2018.2.14f1": {
3.         "version": "2018.2.14f1",
4.         "location": [
5.             "C:\\Software\\Unity\\Unity 2018.2.14\\Editor\\Unity.exe"
6.         ],
7.         "manual": true,
8.         "buildPlatforms": []
9.     },
10.     "2020.1.0b5": {
11.         "version": "2020.1.0b5",
12.         "location": [
13.             "D:\\UnityHub\\2020.1.0b5\\Editor\\Unity.exe"
14.         ],
15.         "manual": true,
16.         "buildPlatforms": [
17.             {
18.                 "dirName": "windowsstandalonesupport",
19.                 "name": "Windows 64-bit",
20.                 "buildTarget": "StandaloneWindows64"
21.             }
22.         ]
23.     },
24.     "2017.4.39f1": {
25.         "version": "2017.4.39f1",
26.         "location": [
27.             "D:\\UnityHub\\2017.4.39f1\\Editor\\Unity.exe"
28.         ],
29.         "manual": true,
30.         "buildPlatforms": [
31.             {
32.                 "dirName": "windowsstandalonesupport",
33.                 "name": "Windows 64-bit",
34.                 "buildTarget": "StandaloneWindows64"
35.             }
36.         ]
37.     },
38.     "2019.2.21f1": {
39.         "version": "2019.2.21f1",
40.         "location": [
41.             "D:\\UnityHub\\2019.2.21f1\\Editor\\Unity.exe"
42.         ],
43.         "manual": true,
44.         "buildPlatforms": [
45.             {
46.                 "dirName": "windowsstandalonesupport",
47.                 "name": "Windows 64-bit",
48.                 "buildTarget": "StandaloneWindows64"
49.             }
50.         ]
51.     },
52.     "2018.4.22f1": {
53.         "version": "2018.4.22f1",
54.         "location": [
55.             "D:\\UnityHub\\2018.4.22f1\\Editor\\Unity.exe"
56.         ],
57.         "manual": true,
58.         "buildPlatforms": [
59.             {
60.                 "dirName": "windowsstandalonesupport",
61.                 "name": "Windows 64-bit",
62.                 "buildTarget": "StandaloneWindows64"
63.             }
64.         ]
65.     },
66.     "2020.2.0a9": {
67.         "version": "2020.2.0a9",
68.         "location": [
69.             "D:\\UnityHub\\2020.2.0a9\\Editor\\Unity.exe"
70.         ],
71.         "manual": true
72.     }
73. }

what does it mean by "manual: true" ?
The other possibility I see is that I installed via "Unity website -> Open in Hub". I surely didnt download and install and then "Locate" it. I might have installed "2018.2.14f1" like that (the editor in "C:\\Software....").

But even if an editor was installed manually and then added via "Locate" - shouldnt be Hub be able to check if there is an Uninstall.exe and if so just display the option to uninstall?

 

and here is a screenshot of my current installs in hub

 

yeah there might have been some hub updatest inbetween. Looks like a bug then.

Yes with manual set to false it shows "Uninstall". But why is the option hidden for manually added editors?

Btw the path/location used in editors.json is actually my current hub path


I dont know if it helps for debugging but I think during cli dev I tested setting the hub path to a different directory (via cli), installing an editor and then setting it back to the previous path. Not sure if that could have messed something up here.

 

But if the editor is added manually hub could check if a uninstall.exe exists in the added directory? OR when I open the hub wouldnt it even be possible to check if Uninstall.exe exists for all editors?

 

Thank you!

 

Hello,
does that mean that even on Windows Unity Hub just deletes the whole directory?

 

Ok but doesnt that mean that checking if an Uninstall.exe exists and then displaying the option either way (manually or not) shouldnt change much else?

 

Not sure what you mean with "you might not be able to perform extra cleanup" and I'm not sure why it's a hack to add a feature that you otherwise already have (e.g. when installing via hub) - but ok