If AIR won't do it and there are time constraints you may like to look
into a full installer product like InstallAnywhere
(http://www.acresso.com/products/ia/installanywhere-overview.htm) or
InstallShield
(http://www.acresso.com/products/is/installshield-overview.htm).



--- In [email protected], "Gregor Kiddie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Well...
> 
>  
> 
> Keeping with the theme of un-installers not cleaning up after
> themselves, and leaving out ugly hacks...
> 
>  
> 
> How about an explicit "clean up" option in the application to delete all
> that stuff that the users can use before uninstalling IF they don't want
> it next time...
> 
>  
> 
> Gk.
> 
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> From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Alen Balja
> Sent: 10 December 2008 03:02
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [flexcoders] AIR app uninstall issue - database stays in
> applicationStorageDirectory forever?
> 
>  
> 
> 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.
>


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