do you need AppZapper with Leopard?

SooTyLaD · 19 Nov 2007 at 15:14

Someone told me a while back that when you uninstall summat on a mac, its not always an immaculate rollback and there are sometimes some leftover files...

is this still the case with Leopard do you still need AppZapper or have they integrated there own version to take care of this? (it wouldn't suprise me, they seem to have thought of everything with this new OS

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SooTyLaD · 19 Nov 2007 at 15:21

apart from being free why is it better out of interest?

and as a side note, how the hell does these little apps know what files need to be removed???

SooTyLaD · 19 Nov 2007 at 15:35

coolio

SooTyLaD · 19 Nov 2007 at 17:15

Sic said:
erm, to free up space. if you tried it and didn't like it. if it didn't work how you expected. if your trial ran out. if you found a better app to do the same thing.

what he said - i for one am planning on installing all sorts of apps when i get my new macbook (first mac) and i'm sure i wont be liking all of em...

SooTyLaD · 19 Nov 2007 at 17:50

theheyes said:
Its usually the larger programs that require such software. Smaller programs are usually quite self-contained and the files they do leave scattered about are insignificant in size.

I've got by quite happily without using one.

hehe yeah but i'm a funny bugger like that... if there are redundant files sitting all over my os even if they were insignificant it'd bother me

SooTyLaD · 21 Nov 2007 at 23:33

why would they take functionality away from spotlight i wonder?

i actually can't believe that apple didn't build a simple (but complete) uninstaller into leopard :confused:

SooTyLaD · 22 Nov 2007 at 09:05

Dr Jones said:
those that installs multiple files at different places mostly has an uninstaller when you double click on the installer...

so are you saying for every program that you want to uninstall you should find the originally downloaded app on the offchance it had an uninstall feature?

you just wouldn't do that, you'd drag things to the trash unknowingly, leaving (be it minor) redundant files on the mac...

if this AppTrap program simply catches these files at the point where you drag/drop an app to the trash, i dont get why everyone doesn't use it? its one very small very simple install with negligable overheads verses ending up with potentially loads of unwanted crap in the system folders... i dont get peoples thinking, and still maintain apple should have implemented this into leopard.