comp.sys.mac.advocacy

Alan Baker wrote:
> In article ,
> Steve de Mena wrote:
>
>> Chance Furlong wrote:
>>> In article ,
>>> "zara" 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