Those two parts are not the sum of the problem. Deleted files can appear in the Recycle Bin, which would allow the user to restore them without the use of any special file undelete utitilities.
The files SL deletes don't. Someone should check to make sure I'm wrong. TPVs aren't always going to follow best practices any more than LL is going to always follow best practice. Best practice would be that if you ask about deleting files in C:\Program Files\SecondLifeDevelopment, you confine your deletions to files in those folders. Regardless of the flaws in the uninstaller's logic, the question I'm asking here is "Can the deleted files be made to do to the Recycle Bin instead of bypassing the Recycle Bin and thus being, at least in the mind of most users, permanently and irreversably gone?" On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Robert Martin <robertl...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 2:51 PM, SuezanneC Baskerville > <sueza...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The uninstaller asks if you want to delete files left in the SL program > > files folder and then if you answer yes it proceeds to delete not only > files > > in the SL program folder, it also deletes files in the Application Data > and > > Local Settings folder, including files that were created by TPVs. > > the problem is in two parts > 1 the uninstaller is being unclear and "helpful" > 2 best practices for a TPV would be to use its own folder by default > (with maybe doing a copy of the avatar log files and such) > > -- > Robert L Martin > -- v i r t u a l w o r l d e n t h u s i a s t -- http://www.google.com/profiles/s u e z a n n e --
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