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AppZapper vs AppDelete: Opinions Please.
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<blockquote data-quote="Brown Study" data-source="post: 388671" data-attributes="member: 3889"><p>Quite a while ago I had loaded NeoOffice or OpenOffice (I forget which), then dumped it, using Spotlight, the Command-F search and EasyFind to nuke its pieces after trashing the app.</p><p></p><p>The app had hidden a few files in the system folder, so they were invisible and untrashable in OS X other than through Terminal that I was wary of using. So I made all files visible, booted into OS 9 and dragged the files to the trash.</p><p></p><p>Would AppZapper have found and deleted those invisible files in the system folder that also would have required root? Would AppDelete?</p><p></p><p>My contention (though I have used neither) is that of Pulse-8. Both are nothing more than crippled search engines that move anything with the relevant words to the trash — sometimes mistakenly. At other times they leave files behind.</p><p></p><p>AppZapper can be dangerous, so its simplification for new users is misplaced.</p><p></p><p>I fail to see the point of using them, and especially paying for the privilege.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brown Study, post: 388671, member: 3889"] Quite a while ago I had loaded NeoOffice or OpenOffice (I forget which), then dumped it, using Spotlight, the Command-F search and EasyFind to nuke its pieces after trashing the app. The app had hidden a few files in the system folder, so they were invisible and untrashable in OS X other than through Terminal that I was wary of using. So I made all files visible, booted into OS 9 and dragged the files to the trash. Would AppZapper have found and deleted those invisible files in the system folder that also would have required root? Would AppDelete? My contention (though I have used neither) is that of Pulse-8. Both are nothing more than crippled search engines that move anything with the relevant words to the trash — sometimes mistakenly. At other times they leave files behind. AppZapper can be dangerous, so its simplification for new users is misplaced. I fail to see the point of using them, and especially paying for the privilege. [/QUOTE]
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