i've seen several products that have an uninstall option to "delete user
data?" Like, the uninstall won't delete anything except its executables
and program data that it installed unless you give it permission to do
more at uninstall time. At least one program i've seen asked two
uninstall questions like that, the one for user data and another for
config files. That program asked about config files because the company
had several different versions of its product and sometimes people would
switch between them. i know, that's not the best way to do things. i'm
just sayin what i've seen.
- AK
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Those two parts are not the sum of the problem.
Deleted files can appear in the Recycle Bin, which would allow the user
to restore them without the use of any special file undelete utitilities.
The files SL deletes don't. Someone should check to make sure I'm wrong.
TPVs aren't always going to follow best practices any more than LL is
going to always follow best practice. Best practice would be that if you
ask about deleting files in C:\Program Files\SecondLifeDevelopment, you
confine your deletions to files in those folders.
Regardless of the flaws in the uninstaller's logic, the question I'm
asking here is "Can the deleted files be made to do to the Recycle Bin
instead of bypassing the Recycle Bin and thus being, at least in the mind
of most users, permanently and irreversably gone?"
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Robert Martin <robertl...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 2:51 PM, SuezanneC Baskerville
<sueza...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The uninstaller asks if you want to delete files left in the SL program
> files folder and then if you answer yes it proceeds to delete not
only files
> in the SL program folder, it also deletes files in the Application
Data and
> Local Settings folder, including files that were created by TPVs.
the problem is in two parts
1 the uninstaller is being unclear and "helpful"
2 best practices for a TPV would be to use its own folder by default
(with maybe doing a copy of the avatar log files and such)
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