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On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 08:07:43AM -0500, Chris Devers wrote:
> Charmingly, OS X mostly gets around the need for installers, lots of
> things are just drag & drop. But if you want to remove the program, it
> isn't enough to just drag the application to the trash, because in many
> cases it will have deposited random files under ~/Library and /Library.
> Moreover, there's little rhyme or reason as to where things get added,
> and no tools (that I've been able to find) that help clean things out.
To think, that in the old days pretty much every app would put its files in
Macintosh HD:System Folder:Preferences (and possibly Extensions and/or
Control Panels if it required a driver of some kind) and er... that was it.
Oh, occasionally you'd come across a badly-written app that would want to
create its own preferences folder in the System Folder, but that was rare.
Uninstalling was a snap. Isn't software supposed to get easier to use?
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