On Jul 9, 2010, at 3:40 AM, Joshua Root wrote:
> On 2010-7-9 14:20 , Scott Haneda wrote:
>> On Jul 8, 2010, at 5:40 PM, John B Brown wrote:
>>
>>> My current problems had better not have anything to do with MacPorts; I
>>> wiped all that stuff I could find. My problem is with Adobe Flash new dmg
>>> not running the graphics on Firefox.
>>
>> When I ran the latest update from Apple, I had the same problems. I had to
>> reinstall Flash clean, which means deleting all the little bits it left
>> laying around in various places. Just reinstalling did not work, and I
>> could not find an uninstaller, nor do I believe it would get all the pieces.
>
> <http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/uninstall_flash_player_osx.dmg>
Yeah, that also lives in Utilities/Adobe/Some/place/of/various/uninstallers.
I have ok luck sometimes, others not. If you install CS5, and tell it to just
install PS5, it will install all other apps too, as a somewhere around 20k app,
with an X on the app, that can't be launched. Adobe's un/installers are a
complete mess.
I like to run a:
touch ~/Desktop/timestamp
Then I go install whatever it is that Adobe asks me to install
I do nothing else during that install that I could not remember what it is I
was up to
I then run the following command:
sudo find -x / -newer ~/Desktop/timestamp >>
~/Desktop/Adobe_installed-`date "+%m.%d.%Y-%H.%M.%S"`.txt
I have that wrapped up in a little shell script that is interactive, but you
get the idea. It will log all files newer than "timestamp", so I have a list
of exactly what was installed and could have messed up my system. I keep that
file in the same location as the app that was installed. It needs some work to
exclude /tmp and other misc files that are made, or always changing, or browser
tmp files since you will get bored and want to surf around a bit.
This has saved my butt so many times when installing a printer driver, SATA
card driver, etc, as they all install things that their uninstaller miss.
AAMOF, their uninstallers tend to miss more than they get.
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