{"id":2472,"date":"2010-05-25T16:00:39","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T20:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=2472"},"modified":"2010-05-25T16:00:44","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T20:00:44","slug":"do-uninstallers-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/25\/do-uninstallers-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Uninstallers Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/151403\/2010\/05\/essentialutilitiesuninstallers.html\">Joe Kissell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/151403\/2010\/05\/essentialutilitiesuninstallers.html\"><p>The problem is, none of these methods are fool-proof. Even uninstallers that rely on lists of files provided by the developer. And the fact that an application created or modified a file doesn&rsquo;t necessarily mean it owns that file, or that it&rsquo;s safe to delete.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whenever I read about one of these utilities, I wonder what problems they might cause by partially removing some software or by removing too many files. The effects are not necessarily easily detectable right away. If the goal is to reclaim disk space, Spotlight is probably sufficient. If you don&rsquo;t know how to use Spotlight and interpret its results, I&rsquo;d look for a product-specific uninstaller or instructions. Absent those, my general recommendation would be to leave the software installed.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Kissell: The problem is, none of these methods are fool-proof. Even uninstallers that rely on lists of files provided by the developer. And the fact that an application created or modified a file doesn&rsquo;t necessarily mean it owns that file, or that it&rsquo;s safe to delete. Whenever I read about one of these utilities, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2473,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions\/2473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}