Uninstalling on Windows?

[Chris Sheffield]

Can the user save the additional files anywhere, or are they only saved to a specific location? If anywhere, not sure how to deal with that. But if they're saved to a specific location, it used to be that Inno Setup had a way to remove an entire folder of files upon uninstalling the application, so long as that folder "belonged" to the application. But I haven't used Inno Setup forever, so I'm not sure if this is still the case. It seems like you had to create the folder when installing, and then mark/flag it to delete all contained files when uninstalling.

Not sure if that really helps or not. Totally going by memory, which isn't too good these days. Sorry.

Chris


On Feb 6, 2013, at 2:09 PM, Scott Rossi <scott at tactilemedia.com> wrote:

> Hi List:
> 
> What is the best way to set up a Windows installer to handle uninstall of
> user-generated files?
> 
> I developed a LiveCode application for Windows that saves settings and
> progress data to files placed in a couple of locations on the drive
> (Documents and AppData).  I tried to do "the right thing" by having my
> installer create these files (as opposed to my app), so they could be
> uninstalled by the user if they want to remove the program.  But the user
> can download additional files that get saved in their installation which,
> from what I can tell, prevents an uninstaller from removing the files since
> they weren't part of the original install.  How does one deal with this?
> 
> I'm using Inno Setup if that makes a difference.  Thanks for any insight.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, UX Design
> 
> 
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