{"id":347342,"date":"2010-02-21T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T18:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-9213693234589207885"},"modified":"2010-02-22T08:58:03","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T13:58:03","slug":"os-x-defect-the-missing-uninstaller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/347342","title":{"rendered":"OS X defect: The missing uninstaller"},"content":{"rendered":"
I strongly prefer OS X and Macs to running XP or Windows 7. (I’ve no experience with Vista, I know XP extremely well and Win 7 well).<\/div>\n
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Even so, there are several domains in which Windows crushes OS X — and has for many years.<\/div>\n
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One example is Windows terminal services\/remote desktop. It’s fabulous technology; Apple’s VNC variation is relatively pathetic. Another is Parental Controls. A third is the file security model. There are about a half-dozen of these persistent, significant, but little noted Windows advantages.<\/div>\n
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One of the most peculiar Windows advantages arises from Apple’s approach to product uninstallation. Take CrashPlan for example:<\/div>\n

FAQ: Installing and Uninstalling [CrashPlan Support Site]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/a>…Mac OSX: Open the installer.dmg file and run the uninstaller.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Windows: Use Add\/remove programs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Windows — Use Add\/Remove. Mac – go to the product website (if it still exists), find an installer, download it, run it.<\/div>\n
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One of the painful memories of my OS\/2 days was learning that installation was irreversible. Many applications could not be uninstalled from the WorkSpace environment. Things are only a little better in OS X.<\/p>\n

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Yes, many apps can be uninstalled by dragging them to the trash. Many, however, cannot.<\/div>\n
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This is an ancient problem, and Apple has never shown an interest in fixing it. It’s one of those lacunae that makes OS X feel old and forgotten.<\/small><\/div>\n
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PS. Incidentally, the CrashPlan uninstaller is a very unfriendly unix shell script that, at one point, asks for your admin password in a fairly cryptic manner. It fits with my suspicion that CrashPlan has been causing my MacBook to lockup on awakening from sleep.<\/div>\n
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I strongly prefer OS X and Macs to running XP or Windows 7. (I’ve no experience with Vista, I know XP extremely well and Win 7 well). Even so, there are several domains in which Windows crushes OS X — and has for many years. One example is Windows terminal services\/remote desktop. It’s fabulous technology; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":711,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/711"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}