Uninstaller question

[Richmond Mathewson]

I suppose you would have to search the end-user's machine for all 
instances of "myStack.livecode", and that seems
a risky business as the end-user might have other LiveCode stacks on 
their machine that are needed to do something else.

Richmond.

On 2/1/2018 1:00 pm, Graham Samuel via use-livecode wrote:
> I’m developing a very simple uninstaller for a Mac app. I have an installer, thanks to DropDMG.
>
> The uninstallation process isn’t difficult - it’s just a matter of deleting all the involved files (some are slightly tricky to find, like dock aliases, but I guess there’s a way around that). But there’s one issue that I’m unsure about: what to do if the user has not obeyed the installer's instructions to place the app in the Applications folder, or has maybe got a beta copy that wasn’t installed using the installer, or has made a ‘spare’ copy somewhere on their hard disk which I don’t know about. I can’t see any way to detect these ‘rogue’ copies - can anyone else think of one? I know there are some big hitters in this area like CleanMyMac that claim to be able to find everything to do with an installed app, but I am not that ambitious - I just don’t want to miss anything obvious.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Graham
>
> PS When I crack this, I’ll have to do the same thing for a PC version of the app. But first things first.
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