Consistent issues with yay -r

[rich snow]

Using yay -r to remove packages installed through yay will result in "unable to CreateHandle: could not find or read director"
I am using exact same name as install and am able to find the files in file systeam with some digging. The most consitent is when trying to remove files that I had issues downloading, and some were downloaded and removed in a few difffrent versions. (CachyOS Package manager, did not work so moved to yay, downloaded but can't remove.)

[merry yoke]

You're supposed and meant to use pacman, not yay.
Use pacman -Rs to remove

.aw pacman rosetta

[visual snow]

Pacman rosetta

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman_rosetta

[merry yoke]

Then, try to reinstall yay entirely

sudo pacman -Rns yay

Removes yay an it's config

Reinstall from it's repo

[rich snow]

Can i ask why the reinstall step? (pacman -Rs did work thanks)

[rich snow]

^

[merry yoke]

Because a pacman and libalpm update requires you to reinstall yay entirely

Same for paru

[rich snow]

^