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

[Frans]

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, <aklo at skyhighway.com> wrote:

> 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 questions like that, the one for user data and another for
> config files.  That program asked about config files because the company
> had several different versions of its product and sometimes people would
> switch between them.  i know, that's not the best way to do things.  i'm
> just sayin what i've seen.
>
> - AK
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> 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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