Because they have stored bookmarks, notes and other stuff with their product. They uninstall the product, install it again and they're still there. It's marked as critical with their QA and I don't think we could get away with it. Well, I guess I could tell them that Adobe knows better than them, and they did this for a reason, but I doubt they'd buy that.
Anyway, looking forward to see some other ugly hack advices if anyone has similar expereince. Or if someone from Adobe like Alex knows some tricks. On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Gregor Kiddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, solutions to this tend to end up being messy. > > > > Question is, why do your users consider keeping their settings from one > install to another a bug? > > > > 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 > > 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 10:27 > > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] AIR app uninstall issue - database stays in > applicationStorageDirectory forever? > > > > Thanks guys, but this still doesn't solve my problem. > > Gregor, I understand that Mac users would delete the folder and nothing > could be run then, but at least I need a workaround to run some code at the > install time, or first time the application runs after install, is there a > way to do at least that? Then I could check for any old files and delete > them, reset prefs, etc. > > As user Dan commented in the Oli's blog, I also got the same idea of > checking the file dates and times in applicationDirectory, if that time is > less than 1 minute from "now", then it is a fresh install and I need to > clean up what is in the applicationStorageDirectory. If that date is older, > that means I'm just running the same already installed application again, > and I leave everything as is. But as Dan posted, this seems like a very very > ugly hack. > > > a. > > > > On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Gregor Kiddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > 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 > > 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]> 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 > > > > > > >
