[opensource-dev] Files deleted by uninstaller don't appear in Recycle Bin

[SuezanneC Baskerville]

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 follow best practices any more than LL is going
to always follow best practice.  Best practice would be that if you ask
about deleting files in C:\Program Files\SecondLifeDevelopment, you confine
your deletions to files in those folders.

Regardless of the flaws in the uninstaller's logic, the question I'm asking
here is "Can the deleted files be made to do to the Recycle Bin instead of
bypassing the Recycle Bin and thus being, at least in the mind of most
users, permanently and irreversably gone?"


On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Robert Martin <robertltux at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 2:51 PM, SuezanneC Baskerville
> <suezanne at gmail.com> 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
> > Local Settings folder, including files that were created by TPVs.
>
> the problem is in two parts
> 1 the uninstaller is being unclear and "helpful"
> 2 best practices for a TPV would be to use its own folder by default
> (with maybe doing a copy of the avatar log files and such)
>
> --
> Robert L Martin
>



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