Uninstall ue4 source?

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I have two versions of ue4 4.6 installed, one source from github and a normal downloaded one which I updated through launcher.
I’d like to uninstall github one since it’s taking up 23gb on my drive.
when I got into my control panel I can only see one program called ‘unreal engine’, but I don’t want to uninstall them both.
how do I delete github version without affecting my other copy of ue4?

thank you!

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Hey HSbF6,

If know where you put GitHub version, it’s as simple as deleting folder. There’s no uninstall process necessary for GitHub builds. Hope that helps!

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oh sweet, thank you! :slight_smile:

Why sources so weighty?

Hi 2rusbekov,

When you get engine from GitHub, you’re getting full, uncompiled source for engine. binary version already has a lot of this built, so it’s much smaller, but if you want to edit source you need to get everything and build it yourself. It ends up being a much larger folder.

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I cannot delete UnrealEngine\Engine\Saved\Config\Windows. I am admin and cannot change rights on folder to delete it. No solution from Google yielded any results. Is there some way to delete that folder or get access to it?

I am able to recover all Engine files if that is of any help.

Edit: Nevermind, I solved it by booting Ubuntu from DVD and deleting everything from there.

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