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Mac Unistall Question

Postby Kenshin17 » Sun May 13, 2007 8:22 pm

Ok, I love my Mac, I am good with computers, but I have been using OS X for less then...hm....four months i think? So here is my question...I know that uninstall and install are as easy as drag and drop, but is there a good program for making sure all the files a program uses are gone too?
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Postby Mithrandir » Sun May 13, 2007 9:26 pm

The files used by the program are typically installed in the /Applications/FILE.APP folder. Yeah, that's a FOLDER. Check it out from the command line, and you'll see. You might also find the USER-SPECIFIC stuff in /Users/USERNAME/Library/Application Support

That's pretty much it. You can waste a lot of time tracking stuff down, but that's where the stuff sits. If you let us know what program you're talking about, we might be able to help more.
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Postby Kenshin17 » Mon May 14, 2007 7:48 pm

Oh, I was just wondering in general.

Thanks though. that helps.
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Postby Mithrandir » Fri May 18, 2007 8:49 pm

No problem. If you have questions about that kind of stuff, just let us know. We kinda like mac's around here.
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Postby Kenshin17 » Sun May 20, 2007 12:55 pm

Thanks I'll definatly keep that in mind. I am loving how easy it is to do pretty much anything in OS X. So much better then Windows.
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