MS Gate is a program which copies, moves and deletes applications and/or
their databases from a memory stick to local storage and vice-versa. In its
interface, a "lock" icon appears next to apps/databases that are in ROM.
The only way I know of for your app to show up as locked in this manner is
for the user to use a program like FlashPro to move it into flash memory
(I'm not even sure if the Clie _has_ flash memory). If the user has done
this, MS Gate isn't the program to use to uninstall - he/she should use the
app that was used to move your app into flash memory.
Another possibility is that the user installed your app on a memory stick,
and runs it from there. If so, it's probably possible to mark the file as
"read-only" from the desktop when the memory stick is mounted on the desktop
as a volume using one of those PC/Mac memory stick readers. MS Gate won't
be able to delete a file that is marked like that, so the user will need to
use desktop functionality to get rid of it.
Mark Peters
in article 43456@palm-dev-forum, Mike Walters at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on
3/26/01 5:13 AM:
>
> Hello,
>
> Recently a user of my software posed a question to me that I need help
> finding the answer to. It seems he installed my software on a Sony CLIE,
> and now wants to uninstall it. He says he has to use the MS Gate program
> that comes with CLIE to delete applications. But when he tries to delete my
> software, it has a lock on it and he can't delete it.
>
> I've never used a Sony CLIE, and I don't know what this MS Gate software is.
> If anybody has used this and has any ideas on how he can uninstall the
> software, I would sure appreciate hearing them.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Mike Walters
> Rose Software
> www.rosesw.com
>
>
>
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