Sometimes you need to clean install an app and will want to use AppCleaner to 'nuke' everything but the App itself, like when the trial runs out and you want to reset the timer (this breaks the Mac User Honour Code). app without the support files is double-sided: You can re-install an app while keeping the same configuration and/or, you can re-install an app, as if it were a clean install, by getting rid of the support files. So in essence OSX Apps are two parts, the.
So where do you put the configuration files? The most common place is one of the Libraries. Instead of relatively harmless ads, we're seeing a hard sell by advertisers that uses fear, uncertainty, and doubt to scare users, strongly suggesting that their unprotected Mac is at risk of a virus, or might-horror of horrors-already have one. Or so they appear to be single files, when in fact they are folders containing files other than the executable.īy elimating the Program Folder, you eliminate the need to store configuration files, etc. But what's been happening of late with these uninvited guests at our browsing parties is a little different. Instead of seeing folders in your Programs directory you see single files that represent the Application.
On OSX you have something slightly different. If you look at your C drive in Windows you will see Program Files, and in that a whole slew of strangely named folder, and within those folders executables and config files.
