In games unistallers it is pretty common for them to ask separately if you want to delete your save games as well.
-Frans On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:28 PM, <a...@skyhighway.com> wrote: > 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 > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > 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) > > -- > Robert L Martin > > > > > -- > v i r t u a l w o r l d e n t h u s i a s t > -- http://www.google.com/profiles/s u e z a n n e -- >
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