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<blockquote data-quote="MacHeadCase" data-source="post: 296111"><p>First, let me welcome you to Mac-Forums, Gerald. I hope you enjoy it here and hang around.</p><p></p><p>Second, when you try to uninstall things you can, yes, do it by hand but some programs scatter some files all over the hard drive so it's handier to use an uninstaller like <a href="http://www.appzapper.com/" target="_blank"><strong>AppZapper</strong></a> if the program doesn't come with its own uninstaller, that is. You can always do a SpotLight search for rogue files on your hard drive though.</p><p></p><p>Third, I think the apps you are trying to reinstall are finding the rogue files and think that you already have the apps installed.</p><p></p><p>Fourth, unless you made a backup of your system, no you cannot restore the system you had. Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) will change all that in the near future but for now you are always better to do backups. I use <a href="http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html" target="_blank"><strong>SuperDuper!</strong></a> to backup my system to an external FireWire hard drive.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacHeadCase, post: 296111"] First, let me welcome you to Mac-Forums, Gerald. I hope you enjoy it here and hang around. Second, when you try to uninstall things you can, yes, do it by hand but some programs scatter some files all over the hard drive so it's handier to use an uninstaller like [URL="http://www.appzapper.com/"][B]AppZapper[/B][/URL] if the program doesn't come with its own uninstaller, that is. You can always do a SpotLight search for rogue files on your hard drive though. Third, I think the apps you are trying to reinstall are finding the rogue files and think that you already have the apps installed. Fourth, unless you made a backup of your system, no you cannot restore the system you had. Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) will change all that in the near future but for now you are always better to do backups. I use [URL="http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html"][B]SuperDuper![/B][/URL] to backup my system to an external FireWire hard drive. [/QUOTE]
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