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System777
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on: February 09, 2009, 13:10
What is the best method or program for tracking all of the files that programs install on your hard drive? I like to know that the program is truly gone when I remove it. Is there a reliable App for this? Thanks, David |
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dpaanlka
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1024 MB Posts: 1646
Reply #1 on: February 09, 2009, 23:26
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Well, Mac applications don't install DLLs and typically don't install system Extensions of their own. Usually external files related to third-party applications are limited to preference lists and stuff, which aren't much to worry about. A good idea is to search for the name of a program or the publisher, like "Microsoft" and see what comes up, you can usually tell which ones should be deleted. I don't know of any program that does this automatically in Mac OS Classic, but it certainly isn't the same degree of severity as it is in Windows.
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IronTooth
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8 MB Posts: 14
Reply #2 on: February 11, 2009, 15:15
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Quote from: "System777" What is the best method or program for tracking all of the files that programs install on your hard drive? I like to know that the program is truly gone when I remove it. Is there a reliable App for this? One tool that can be used (with caution) for System Folder items is Extension Manager. Its list of Control Panels and Extensions has a column for the 'Package', and you can sort on this column. Software developers who did their homework correctly include package information with installed System Folder items. So, for example, if I wanted to remove AppleWorks 5.0.3 from my PB1400, I could look in Extension Manager to see what AppleWorks installed. The caution - and it's a big one - is that many programs will install or re-install items that are installed by the system installer, and/or by other software packages. So in my case, if I were to delete all items installed by Newton Connection Utilities (installed after AppleWorks), I would delete Xtend Power Enabler, which is used by AppleWorks for doing some of its file translations. OTOH - If you wanted to delete Internet Explorer, and had no other Microsoft applications installed, you could safely delete all of the extensions with a Microsoft package name. - Don
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CyberMonkey
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16 MB Posts: 28
Reply #3 on: February 15, 2009, 13:03
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This is what you want --> Installer Observer
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