• Skip to main content
  • Skip to search
  • Skip to footer
Cadence Home
  • This search text may be transcribed, used, stored, or accessed by our third-party service providers per our Cookie Policy and Privacy Policy.

  1. Community Forums
  2. PCB Design
  3. Uninstalling Cadence

Stats

  • Locked Locked
  • Replies 1
  • Subscribers 165
  • Views 15640
  • Members are here 0
More Content
This discussion has been locked.
You can no longer post new replies to this discussion. If you have a question you can start a new discussion

Uninstalling Cadence

Jessicak
Jessicak over 4 years ago

HI,

I am trying to understand what happened when I uninstalled cadence to do a fresh install.

My libraries where not in the cadence install folder but siting on a onedrive folder remote from anything cadence, the only reference to the libraries was in the user preference paths, but uninstall seemed to have found them and deleted them without warning.

Is this what happens, you cannot uninstall without losing everything?

I was lucky that I was able to get the libraries back from my remote backup, but it could have been a disaster

Jessica

  • Cancel
  • Alok Tripathi
    Alok Tripathi over 4 years ago

    No, that should not be the case, candence installer will not remove any user created files. On uninstall It removes only those files which are installed during installation. 

    • Cancel
    • Vote Up 0 Vote Down
    • Cancel
Cadence Guidelines

Community Guidelines

The Cadence Design Communities support Cadence users and technologists interacting to exchange ideas, news, technical information, and best practices to solve problems and get the most from Cadence technology. The community is open to everyone, and to provide the most value, we require participants to follow our Community Guidelines that facilitate a quality exchange of ideas and information. By accessing, contributing, using or downloading any materials from the site, you agree to be bound by the full Community Guidelines.

© 2025 Cadence Design Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

  • Terms of Use
  • Privacy
  • Cookie Policy
  • US Trademarks
  • Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information