capair45 Posted November 8, 2015 ID:1000577 Share Posted November 8, 2015 Looking inside the Malwarebytes folder in ProgramData, I find 2 additional folders each titled Malwarebytes Anti-Malware (one folder has an apostrophe after the "s" in Malwarebytes - probably insignificant). One folder contains numerous files/folders and the other only 2 (Quarantine folder and mbam-setup.exe.). I have included screenshots of the contents of both folders. My question is can the smaller folder with two files be deleted? Thanks, Dave... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
daledoc1 Posted November 8, 2015 ID:1000579 Share Posted November 8, 2015 Hi: IIRC The folders with the apostrophe were from version 1.x AFAIK they may be safely deleted. But not sure why your setup file is in that folder?Did you save it there for some reason??? Cheers, Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
capair45 Posted November 8, 2015 Author ID:1000595 Share Posted November 8, 2015 Hi: But not sure why your setup file is in that folder?Did you save it there for some reason??? Cheers, Not that I recall. I'd have no reason to do so. Another mystery! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
daledoc1 Posted November 8, 2015 ID:1000605 Share Posted November 8, 2015 Hi: Hmmmmmmmm, well, according to your screenshots, you have the setup file in the ProgramData folder for both versions.That seems odd.I just checked on my own box, and I do not see the setup file in that folder (I save my setup files in my downloads folder). I'm no expert & I could be missing something, but I don't know how it would have ended up there unless you saved it there???Perhaps Windows/your browser was configured to save downloads to that folder for some reason?Perhaps a Malwarebytes staff person can shed some light on that. In any event, if you haven't ever done so, you might want to perform a CLEAN reinstall at some point, using the mbam-clean removal tool, as explained here: MBAM Clean Removal Process 2x I'm not 100% certain that the current removal tool process will remove the leftover version 1.x folders (with the apostrophe), but AFAIK they can be safely deleted manually. Feel free to post back if you need more help. Cheers, Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
capair45 Posted November 8, 2015 Author ID:1000610 Share Posted November 8, 2015 Thanks for that info. I'm certain I wouldn't have moved the setup files into a folder buried that deep but at my age, anything's possible. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maurice Naggar Posted November 8, 2015 ID:1000630 Share Posted November 8, 2015 Hello capair45,That second folder ( the one with the 'you can delete it along with the 2 files. Those are remainders of an old ( very old ) version 1. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
capair45 Posted November 8, 2015 Author ID:1000641 Share Posted November 8, 2015 Thank you for that. I have deleted the folder. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maurice Naggar Posted November 9, 2015 ID:1000860 Share Posted November 9, 2015 Very good. You are welcome. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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