Re: Had to uninstall Safari

In article <t92dnR9KHP0cznranZ2dnUVZ_tSknZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Steve de Mena <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Alan Baker wrote:
In article <qt2dnapDc_2ieHvanZ2dnUVZ_ojinZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Steve de Mena <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Chance Furlong wrote:
In article <G3xFj.13776$%15.4333@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"zara" <joeyisfucked@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

There seems to have been some kind of issue with it. I'm going to
reload
it
later and see what happens.
All I do is drag the Safari icon and all related preferences and
reciepts to the trash and empty. Of course removing applications is
easier on the Mac, no DLL hell and such to worry about.
Some apps (like music apps) can leave GIGABYTES of files buried deep
in the /Library folder hierarchy. There is no good reason why Mac
applications don't come with proper un-install programs.

Steve

If by 'deep' you mean 'in a folder clearly named for the app in a folder
called "Application Support"'...

Well for one, for the average user, who has been told that all they
have to do is drag an app to the trashcan, poking around /Library is
not something they will be comfortable with.

Two, it is more complex than that. Many Music/MIDI plugins not only
have sample files, which can be Gigabytes, in /Library/Application
Support/VendorName, but the actual plugin files are usually in each of
the different plugin technology folders.

One I use, Native Instruments "Battery", has files in:

/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/
/Library/Audio/Battery
/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST
/Library/Application Support/Native Instruments/Shared
Content/Sounds/Battery 3
/Library/Preferences/com.native-instruments.Battery 3.plist [and I am
sure a novice user knows how to get Property List Editor if he
actually wants to edit this]
/Library/Receipts (FOUR separate Battery application pkg files)

This is all in addition to the ".app" file.

Thats just the first one I came across on my system.

Steve

The download for Battery (if you mean the drumkit application) is a
whopping 23MB, Steve. Surely you're not suggesting that when
uninstalling Battery, it should automatically remove any files you've
downloaded and installed AFTER you installed the application? Any
"GIGABYTES" of data belonging to Battery isn't part of the application
installation. They are sample files you install manually.


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