Take a look at Oli Goldman's article on why the AIR app installer doesn't clean up after itself.
http://blogs.adobe.com/simplicity/2008/07/why_uninstallers_dont_clean_up _user_files.html Gk. Gregor Kiddie Senior Developer INPS Tel: 01382 564343 Registered address: The Bread Factory, 1a Broughton Street, London SW8 3QJ Registered Number: 1788577 Registered in the UK Visit our Internet Web site at www.inps.co.uk <blocked::http://www.inps.co.uk/> The information in this internet email is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee. Access, copying or re-use of information in it by anyone else is not authorised. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of INPS or any of its affiliates. If you are not the intended recipient please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alen Balja Sent: 08 December 2008 03:34 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [flexcoders] AIR app uninstall issue - database stays in applicationStorageDirectory forever? I would really appreciate if someone maybe close to Adobe would shed some light on the issue. Can it be done, are there some workarounds. It's really annoying, we're few days from release and client just found this "bug". The bug is that ApplicationStorageDirectory doesn't get deleted on uninstall. Hence, all the user's settings remain after he uninstalls the app and installs it again. (Plus it's very ugly to have all the files there forever) Not sure if I'm doing something wrong, on the application launch I'm copying SQLite database from applicationDirectory to applicationStorageDirectory, in order to be able to read and write. Of course, I check if the database already exists there or not. var dbFile:File = File.applicationDirectory. resolvePath("database.db"); var DBDestination:File = File.applicationStorageDirectory.resolvePath("db/database.db"); if (!DBDestination.exists) { dbFile.copyTo(DBDestination); } Everything is fine here, up to the point when application is uninstalled. Database stays there even after the uninstall and hence breaks some critical functionality. It might be that I'm not following some best practices, or there is a way to manually clean up the stuff, I don't know. Any ideas? Alen On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 7:24 PM, b_alen <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: Not sure if I'm doing something wrong, on the application launch I'm copying SQLite database from applicationDirectory to applicationStorageDirectory, in order to be able to read and write. Of course, I check if the database already exists there or not. var dbFile:File = File.applicationDirectory.resolvePath("database.db"); var DBDestination:File = File.applicationStorageDirectory.resolvePath("db/database.db"); if (!DBDestination.exists) { dbFile.copyTo(DBDestination); } Everything is fine here, up to the point when application is uninstalled. Database stays there even after the uninstall and hence breaks some critical functionality. It might be that I'm not following some best practices, or there is a way to manually clean up the stuff, I don't know. Any ideas? Alen
