Files deleted by the SL uninstaller don't appear in the Recycle Bin on my
Windows XP system.
It seems to me it would be better if they did.
Some files deleted by some other programs do appear in the Recycle Bin.
In the case that brought this to my attention, it was the uninstaller for
the SL De
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 2:51 PM, SuezanneC Baskerville
wrote:
> The uninstaller asks if you want to delete files left in the SL program
> files folder and then if you answer yes it proceeds to delete not only files
> in the SL program folder, it also deletes files in the Application Data and
> Loc
Those two parts are not the sum of the problem.
Deleted files can appear in the Recycle Bin, which would allow the user to
restore them without the use of any special file undelete utitilities.
The files SL deletes don't. Someone should check to make sure I'm wrong.
TPVs aren't always going to
i've seen several products that have an uninstall option to "delete user
data?" Like, the uninstall won't delete anything except its executables
and program data that it installed unless you give it permission to do
more at uninstall time. At least one program i've seen asked two
uninstall questi
In games unistallers it is pretty common for them to ask separately if you
want to delete your save games as well.
-Frans
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:28 PM, wrote:
> i've seen several products that have an uninstall option to "delete user
> data?" Like, the uninstall won't delete anything excep
SuezanneC Baskerville schrieb:
> Files deleted by the SL uninstaller don't appear in the Recycle Bin
> on my Windows XP system.
>
> It seems to me it would be better if they did.
>
> Some files deleted by some other programs do appear in the Recycle Bin.
>
> In the case that brought this to my at
The uninstaller shouldn't remove ANYTHING in the user's profile, period. It's
not being "unclear" by removing files in the user's profile when it removes
files in the Program Files directory, it's simply doing the wrong thing. This
has been an ongoing problem for years, I suspect there's a Jira
Au contraire. Some people get very upset when an installer leaves any files
behind that were created by the program automatically, such as log files. It's
simply not true that the uninstaller shouldn't remove anything in the profile
-- I have worked at multiple companies where leaving behind any
Our chat logs are our baby pictures, our precious documents, our financial
records. They are our love letters, our records of meeting our friends, our
graduation diplomas, our birth certificates, our immunization records, our
green cards.
For an uninstall program to delete them is a good bit lik
On 2010-10-27, at 7:45 AM, Kent Quirk (Q Linden) wrote:
> Au contraire. Some people get very upset when an installer leaves any files
> behind that were created by the program automatically, such as log files.
> It's simply not true that the uninstaller shouldn't remove anything in the
> profi
My only concern with some of this, is that it eliminates the support
teams easy one line answer to everything odd or unexplained. Uninstall
and reinstall the client. The reason this works so well is that it
deletes all of the users settings and preferences, which often become
corrupted or contain i
On 10/27/2010 10:45 AM, Kent Quirk (Q Linden) wrote:
> Au contraire. Some people get very upset when an installer leaves any files
> behind that were created by the program automatically, such as log files.
Au contraire contraire. MANY people get VERY upset when an installer
deletes files that be
getting back to what i said
1 the uninstaller should state that it is removing the profile data
(best thing to do would be to zip it and put it in a folder on the
desktop)
2 TPVs should by default not use the default secondlife profile folder
(i would bet that 40% of SL/TPV problems could be solv
It might be more logical to store the chat logs - or perhaps a copy of the
chat logs - in the "My Documents" folder, or operating system equivalent.
The recycle bin might be a gamble, but it has better odds of allowing data
restoration that not putting the deleted files in the recycle bin, doesn't
I don't see this as a theoretical issue about whether the logs should be
deleted, or not. (Note the word "should".)
Many users don't like it. Don't do it.
lee
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Wow such a big discussion. I think the best plan would be to have both
ways as an option like lots of installers do. Check this box to delete
all files program created after it was installed simple enough and
solves really any problem that arrises from left over cache and stuff
if one is trying to
Just follow Microsoft requirements for Windows Logo for installation and
uninstallation on the Windows platform.
One of it is to never touch the user profile. This is a requirement for
Terminal Services Aware applications.
For removing "breadcrumbs", this is not working, an uninstaller cannot
re
6 years and 9 months of chat logs is not "bread crumbs".
v i r t u a l w o r l d e n t h u s i a s t
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ts cause that mentality
leads to things like this happening
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:35:07 -0500
From: sueza...@gmail.com
To: thomas.shik...@online.de
CC: opensource-dev@lists.secondlife.com
Subject: Re: [opensource-
On 2010-10-27, at 09:45, Kent Quirk (Q Linden) wrote:
> Au contraire. Some people get very upset when an installer leaves any files
> behind that were created by the program automatically, such as log files.
> It's simply not true that the uninstaller shouldn't remove anything in the
> profile -
On 2010-10-27, at 16:33, Zabb65 wrote:
> My only concern with some of this, is that it eliminates the support
> teams easy one line answer to everything odd or unexplained. Uninstall
> and reinstall the client.
Good.
Replace that with a "reset to default settings" option in Preferences. If you
w
On 2010-10-29, at 03:23, kow wrote:
> If that is the case, then Linden should go ahead and ignore the bug as it's
> caused by the nature of a ~10 year old operating system.
A ten year old operating system that is still supported and widely used, more
widely used than Vista for sure, and will no
Ok, people are quoting me without also quoting the context of the statement I
was responding to, which was a categorical "never", and also not quoting what
else I said, which was:
> Now I do think we can try do better; asking about deletion is on the
> Snowstorm backlog.
>
> There's work goi
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