Applications are quite a bit more self-contained on the Mac. App
files are actually folders of a sort. You can Control-Click (or right
click) an app and choose "View Package Contents" to see all the files
included within that app. Preference files are stored elsewhere, and
are not deleted with the application itself. You can clear out your
preference files every so often if you choose, in the Library folder,
but these files are tiny.
So, when you delete an app file, you're deleting a collection of the
files that are required for that app to run.
Josh de Lioncourt
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On 3 Apr, 2008, at 12:43 PM, Jerry Matheny wrote:
Oh wow, it's that easy? I assume this deletes all the associated
files for a program as well, for example say VMWare Fusion? If
someone could explain this it would be interesting, this from
someone who's used both Windows and Linux.
Thanks in advance,
Jerry
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Subject: Re: Wondering about program uninstall process on Mac
Laughs, I asked the very same thing last weekend and was
flaborgasted to learn that all you have to do is press command
delete on an application and it goes to trash. The next time you
empty trash it goes away. Can you imagine the havok it might be
possible to reek? Grins. Oh well. I'll take it. The first thing
to go was that useless ms office 2008 demo.
Best,
Erik
On 3-Apr-08, at 8:54 AM, Jerry Matheny wrote:
I was just wondering, how do you handle the uninstalling of
programs on Mac. Is the process the same for all applications? IN
other words, say a program isn't accessible, can it still be
uninstalled with VoiceOver?
Thanks in advance,
Jerry
