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One of the icky things about my early life with my brand new Mac was installing things that i never could quite uninstall. This should be a priority of the Mac, to keep a good record of what is installed and where-all it put whatever CRAP it put into your machine. Yes, there are "well-behaved" apps that barely install anything, keeping everything inside their own packages (! nice), but there are un-behaved things (one installed itself with no options and didn't put ANYTHING in the Applications folder! it installed about four folders and files, all in places i'm still discovering. Since the machine logs everything, NOT ONLY can it know what a program installs, but ALSO what it does later when it is being used or tried out.
Delete app related files/settings when dragging apps to the trash
Wrote on February 8, 2009, 7:26am
One of the icky things about my early life with my brand new Mac was installing things that i never could quite uninstall. This should be a priority of the Mac, to keep a good record of what is installed and where-all it put whatever CRAP it put into your machine. Yes, there are "well-behaved" apps that barely install anything, keeping everything inside their own packages (! nice), but there are un-behaved things (one installed itself with no options and didn't put ANYTHING in the Applications folder! it installed about four folders and files, all in places i'm still discovering. Since the machine logs everything, NOT ONLY can it know what a program installs, but ALSO what it does later when it is being used or tried out.