On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Dan <dantear...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 message. > Emails should NEVER had gotos in them. > > [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. > -- > - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. > > Dan : Gotta love bureaucrats with nothing to offer! Keep up the good work! By the way is there no rule on supercilious signatures? Not even when they are very pale grey? Kim
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