Re: Uninstalling

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Thanks for your help - that's what I've done. The files in the startup
section of the library are the problems one eg. entourage and sharity are
two that do this.


On 1/9/05 7:00 AM, in article BF3B6759.DA0A%aschaevitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"Alan Schaevitz" <aschaevitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> ---------On 8/31/05 1:28 PM "Harri Mellin" wrote:
>
>> In article <BF3BE78B.4B7D%peter.bascomb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>> Peter Bascomb <peter.bascomb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> G'day
>>>
>>> New to MACs. In Win XP used to going to the control panel and selecting
>>> add/remove programs.
>>>
>>> Where is or what is the equivalent on Tiger?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
>>
>> drag and drop in to the trash and empty
>
> That approach will trash the application, but not any other files related to
> it (prefs, etc.). There is no equivalent in Mac OS for the Uninstall
> feature of Windows. Some programs come with an uninstall application and
> some (most) don't. The residual files do no harm but are an annoyance. You
> could do a file search on the name of the program (or maybe the developer)
> to try to find all related files, but that is hit or miss. Sorry, I can't
> offer any other help (and this help was poor at best). :)
>

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