Thanks Lee, I am running 10.2.3 so I' ll just trash what I want to get rid of and let it go at that. Makes things much simpler doesn't it? George Yankey On Monday, February 24, 2003, at 10:52 AM, Lee Larson wrote:
> On Monday, February 24, 2003, at 09:41 AM, George H. Yankey wrote > about early spring cleaning: > >> I have some programs ( games in particular ) that I would like to >> remove from my hard drive. May I just " Trash " or do I need to >> un-install ? If so how do I go about doing that? >> I always appreciate the help I get from this group! > > You didn't say what operating system you are running. > > With Mac OS X, most programs can be uninstalled by trashing them. > Sometimes you'll also have to plumb the depths of your ~/Library > directory to remove registration and preferences information, but it > doesn't hurt to leave it there, if you don't mind wasting a few bytes > of drive space. > > Under Mac OS 9, I would use an uninstaller because the program may > have installed extensions and other types of ugly nonsense. Trashing > the program's directory won't remove other detritus scattered by the > installer. > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be February 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be February 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
