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I uninstalled the user's Sync app as the same user. However, there was a UAC prompt that elevated to the admin account. So, yes it is possible

I have restored my whole computer from the backup disk image. The entire registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Resilio Sync if logged in as my admin account, does not exist. However, it exists with the expected contents from the user account that I use to run Sync (because that's how I installed it, as the user).

I installed Sync not as a service. It was running as a user application. I did not change anything in the advanced -> more options. One thing to note is that I use two Windows accounts - one is admin and the other is not. Sync was running on the non-admin account. Recount: I've had Sync running on this PC since 2016, with about ten A keys. No advanced folders (been using Sync before the name change). I added some encrypted folders (D keys) to Sync about 20 minutes before the incident. After these folders were synchronized, I closed Sync normally via right clicking the icon. I decided to reinstall it as a Windows service. When I uninstalled Sync, UAC prompted for admin escalation (i.e. asked me to enter the password to the admin account). After selecting "Remove settings" and OK the uninstall, the Add or Remove Programs window still showed Resilio Sync as installed for a few minutes (It shouldn't take that long to delete settings.) Then all icons and files on my Desktop were gone. I opened task manager and see Resilio Sync.exe running on my admin account having almost 100% of disk activity. I killed it, but not before it deleted almost everything. Are there any specific configuration settings you would like to know? I'll be able to get more information after restoring the backup disk image.

Resilio Sync version: 2.5.9 Windows 10 Pro What happened: I uninstalled Sync so I can reinstall it as a service. I checked "Delete settings" during the uninstall. It proceeded to delete everything on C: drive. Except the files currently locked by Windows, all of C:\Users, C:\Program Files, C:\Program Files (x86), C:\Windows, and more are gone. How do I know it's the culprit? Because I watched Resilio Sync.exe in Task Manager consuming 100% of disk activity on my administrator username, and my available disk space on C: increasing by the GB's in seconds. Chrome still works because it was open when the mass deletion happened. I don't think my computer can reboot now. Please don't test this bug without a full backup stored somewhere else.

If a sync folder is shared among a group of 5 devices using the same internet connection as well as another group of 10 devices on another LAN across the internet, and a new file is added on one of the five computers, is Sync on each LAN computer going to send the same data 10 times into the other LAN (generating 50x internet traffic)? Or can it figure out that it only needs to send different pieces into the other LAN and let them sync among themselves?