Daggerfall Unity uninstall help

[Bathtub Barracuda]

I haven’t played the game in over a year and plan on getting back into it soon. How would I go about uninstalling Daggerfall Unity and reinstalling it along with the old mods so I can update everything again? Thank you in advance!

[Zsrai]

Delete the folder.

[lonetrav]

It's not so easy. Deleting the folder removes "most" of the installation - not everything, but possibly too much.
- For one, there is another Daggerfall Unity folder, underneath <user>\AppData\LocalLow\Daggerfall Workshop, which contains information about mods (not the mods themselves) and saves, and a Unity subfolder with (I suppose) data about Unity-related settings of Daggerfall Unity.
- And secondly, the main folder of Daggerfall Unity contains a subfolder DaggerfallUnity_Data\StreamingAssets with your downloaded data (mods, ...).

To completely remove Daggerfall Unity, you have to delete the main Daggerfall Unity folder and the Daggerfall Workshop folder.
Both folders together occupy about 300 MB of disk space (depending on your mods and savegames - if you use, for example, Dream, the disk space required may be a couple of GB). Why not simply back them up before deleting? In this case, you can easily restore your current installation later.

The minimum for retaining what you currently have is backing up Daggerfall Workshop and StreamingAssets. If you want to reinstall Daggerfall Unity later, you can install the then latest version, and then find out how compatible your backed up data are with the new version (no guarantee).
I'd probably restore StreamingAssets and start the game. If it crashes, you have to look into the details to find out why, otherwise you can check the mod settings, check your installed mods for newer versions, test old savegames (restore Daggerfall Workshop first), or do whatever you like to find out what works and what doesn't. I can't give you a fool-proof approach, guaranteed to work, because there are too many things which may have changed in the meantime, and I'm not really an expert in Daggerfall Unity and Unity installations and variables.

[Zsrai]

If you're reinstalling, you can literally just delete the old DFU folder and reinstall the new version. You don't have to touch AppData or save subfolders in the DFU folder. If you want to do a full purge, you can also get rid of that AppData folder but that's about all you need to do.

[Bathtub Barracuda]

Much appreciated.

[lonetrav]

Originally posted by Zsrai:

If you're reinstalling, you can literally just delete the old DFU folder and reinstall the new version. You don't have to touch AppData or save subfolders in the DFU folder. If you want to do a full purge, you can also get rid of that AppData folder but that's about all you need to do.

He said "along with the old mods". These are in StreamingAssets, and deleting the DFU folder would delete StreamingAssets, too.
To leave the Daggerfall Workshop folder untouched makes sense, if you want to continue playing old savegames (and it doesn't hurt, if you don't).
Just be aware that there is no guarantee that future versions of DFU willl be savegame-compatible. If you want to continue playing your old savegames, I do recommend to backup the main DFU folder and the Daggerfall Workshop folder (don't delete it), and then simply restoring the backed up DFU folder. In this case don't install a new version of DFU, unless you're certain that it's savegame-compatible.

[Zsrai]

Originally posted by lonetrav:

Originally posted by Zsrai:

If you're reinstalling, you can literally just delete the old DFU folder and reinstall the new version. You don't have to touch AppData or save subfolders in the DFU folder. If you want to do a full purge, you can also get rid of that AppData folder but that's about all you need to do.

He said "along with the old mods". These are in StreamingAssets, and deleting the DFU folder would delete StreamingAssets, too.
To leave the Daggerfall Workshop folder untouched makes sense, if you want to continue playing old savegames (and it doesn't hurt, if you don't).
Just be aware that there is no guarantee that future versions of DFU willl be savegame-compatible. If you want to continue playing your old savegames, I do recommend to backup the main DFU folder and the Daggerfall Workshop folder (don't delete it), and then simply restoring the backed up DFU folder. In this case don't install a new version of DFU, unless you're certain that it's savegame-compatible.

If you have an old version of DFU and mods that work for it, you want to remove those and reinstall updated mod versions. So you want to delete that folder regardless.