At 12:43 PM -0500 1/23/2012, Kim wrote:
Kim...
1) please keep in mind that these LEM lists *require* that you post
in PLAIN text. Your use of all but unreadable HTML blue
whatevertheheck font that be is unacceptable.
2) While we don't enforce bottom posting on these LEM lists, it is
*extremely* bad netiquette to top post on an already bottom posted
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[Kim's HTML and fonting stripped]
I still recommend MacKeeper until I hear what problems Beverly has
encountered.
Over the past year or two, I've received more than a dozen complaints
regarding MacKeeper. Everything from it skipping files it should
have deleted, deleting files that it shouldn't have, to it crashing,
etc. And over the years, MacKeeper HAS NOT BEEN FIXED. Bottom line:
MacKeeper is pretty much a poster child for over-advertized
suckerware. It should not be near any Mac. Period. Beverly's
polite opin, frankly, is simply the tip of the iceberg...
Of course, YMMV.
Cap'n Bob McBurney wrote:
What I want to do is have a reliable and stable updater for 3rd
party software that Apple Software does not update.
No such reliable beast. (see below).
I want software that will fully "uninstall" software I no longer use.
No such reliable beast.
See, here's the problem... Apps do things in different ways. And
not all developers follow Apple's guidelines as strictly as they
should. So a product that claims that it can manage all your 3rd
party installs or uninstalls is simply LYING to you. At best, it
can only do so based on those individual apps that for which it was
designed *and* for which it has been recently updated. At worst, if
it contains bugs, it can damage your system by doing an incomplete
install or uninstall. (ObQuibble: To support said uninstalls, the
developer must hack into those apps to see what's what. Unless they
have permission from the app's author, that's illegal!).
Most apps include their own mechanism to apply updates (eg: Sparkle).
Many are also beginning to offer updates via Apple's app store
system. So just... let the app check for updates when you launch it,
then do whatever it tells you to do. Easypeasy.
As for uninstalling... Most app uninstalls are trivial. Toss the
app. Toss the prefs. Done. Apps that are any more complicated than
that usually provide an uninstaller function or app. No big deal.
And an uninstaller provided by the app's developer is
100000000000000% more reliable than some 3rd party general
uninstaller that may or may not have been updated and may or may not
be buggy...
fwiw,
- Dan.
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