Comment by jtokoph
8 years ago
PSA: I removed the whitelisted directory from my local install of Kite and then uninstalled the application. Logging into https://kite.com/settings/files still shows my machine and all of the synced files.
I still had to manually purge my machine and files from that page.
If you think your files were removed, check again.
Extra PSA: I deleted my files from that page a few months ago and they have now reappaeared. (See my other comment.)
I would recommend emailing them to delete your account and data, including backups and so on.
Hi, Kite founder here. If you uninstall right after removing the whitelist directory then the removed files may have not have been synced to the server before the uninstall, particularly if you have a lot of files on your machine. We will address this by adding a "remove all whitelisted directories and log out" link to the local settings.
Something different was likely happening in bfirsh's case (sibling comment). If you delete the files from the kite.com/settings/files page but Kite is still installed then they will get synced up again. The most fail proof way is to uninstall and then wipe files from kite.com/settings/files. We will make the wipe files link log Kite out on that machine.
Sorry about the edge cases. We've been working on it, and will continue to do so!