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Bootstrapping Boxstarter fails due to Chocolatey directory already existing #548

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What You Are Seeing?

This was reported in the community channels, when bootstrapping boxstarter this fails the the installations due to the Chocolatey directory being created manually by Boxstarter, while an update to the Chocolatey installation will throw an exception if it exists, even when empty.

What is Expected?

We should be able to bootstrap and install Boxstarter in the supported scenarios.

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