Deleting applications and everything that has to do with them?
I have deleted enough applications in the past 6 years, and then re-downloaded them (reasons for doing that are not important). However, every time I would download an application again, all the preferences I tempered with would still be there, as if I never deleted the program at all.
How come preferences of a specific program get saved in my memory even after I delete it? What exactly is stored on my device, and how to get rid of that completely (if I so desire)?
that was my alias wrote:
I was being precocious; deliting apps just in case they had any malware inside them. You know, the kind of thing a computer illiterate person would do. Or maybe I was right in doing so. So, all preferences are stored under <user>?
Also, the fact my personal library is hidden... not sure if I like that.
User preferences are stored in the user library, you are looking in the wrong library.
The user Library is hidden for good reason, some people can not tell what is what and should not enter it, especially when deleting things
Many 3rd party apps come with uninstallers, (VLC for example), it's best to use them to uninstall.
Mac OS X
Drag the VLC application to your trash can. You can also remove the configuration file and the cache files in ~/Library/Preferences/VLC/. There is an AppleScript on the disk-image which lets you do this automatically.
If that did not work, you can double-click on the Applications icon. This will bring up a list of all applications on your Mac. Scroll through the list of Applications, then press and hold the Ctrl button to bring up a table of options and actions. Click on "move to trash".
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Check what is in your SSD/ storage on your macbook Apple Icon > about this mac > more info > STORAGE tab on top
recommend handy useful APPS such as :
Disk Expert
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/disk-expert/id488920185?mt=12
Disk Map
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/disk-map/id715464874?mt=12
dont need them, but theyre very useful.
also the best is DAISY DISK
https://itunes.apple.com/app/daisydisk/id411643860?mt=12&ign-mpt=uo%3D4
See here for answer about the OTHER which is taking up space:
http://pondini.org/TM/30.html
and here:
http://pondini.org/OSX/DiskSpace.html
See Kappys excellent note on the rest of “other” files taking up your space:
What is "Other" and What Can I Do About It?
see here:
Your Solid State Drive and having enough space inside your Macbook Air & Pro
Solid State Drive usage premise, or the “more space / upgrade SSD” question
There have been questions posed and positions taken by many people who are trying to use their Macbook Air or Pro’s solid state drive (SSD) as a mass media storage device, for either pictures, videos, massive music collections or all three combined; but this should not be the working premise of a ‘limited’ SSD and its use.
In which, it’s the case of those users with either 128GB, 256GB, or even 512GB of internal SSD space, that have or are running “out of space”, that questions are raised. The immediate premise of some users can sometimes be “(how to / if) upgrading my SSD” when in fact in nearly all instances another approach is the logical and sensible one that needs to be looked into and exercised.
Any Macbook containing a SSD should be idealized as a ‘working platform’ notebook containing all your applications, documents, and weekly or bi-weekly necessary files. All collections of media files such as pictures, music, and videos, unless directly needed should be kept off the notebook and on an external hard drive or likewise. While the ‘working platform’ premise is also the case with larger internal conventional hard drives of 1TB+, its implementation isn't as critical except in terms of data protection.
Realistically, you should at most coordinate roughly 20 to 25% of your total SSD space to all audio-video personal use media (picture / music / video collections), leaving the remaining amount on an external HD.
Nobody should consider any notebook a data storage device at any time under any circumstance, rather a data creation, sending, and manipulation device; and in the case of a SSD, this is more important for purposes of having sufficient working space on the SSD and reducing SSD ‘bloat’ in which cases someone is wrongly attempting to use the SSD space as a large media storage nexus.
The rare exception to the collective usage and premise of SSD use in which a much larger SSD is truly needed are for those in video and photography professions that require both the extremely fast speeds of the SSD and the onboard storage for large and or many video and photography files. However this also falls under the premise of a ‘working platform’ for such peoples rather than the intent of many who are using the SSD as passive and static data storage for media files very infrequently needed or accessed.
All on-notebook data collections should be logically approached as to necessity, and evaluated as to whether it is active or passive data that likely doesn’t need to be on the notebook, allocations of space-percentages to as-needed work and use, apportioning space for your entertainment media, and questioning whether it should it be on the notebook for more than short-term consumption.
Considerations should be made in the mind of any user in differentiating the necessary system data (System hub) comprising the Mac OSX, applications, necessary documents that both must and should be on your internal SSD, and that of the users personal data (Data hub) comprising created files, pictures, music, videos, PDF files, data created or being created and otherwise, that likely unless being used soon or often should be parked on an external hard drive for consumption, or temporarily loading onto the internal SSD.
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However it is almost always the case, that such large media files are wanted to be stored internally rather than actually needed, in which case the external HD is both prudent as well as necessary. Additionally costs per MB are infinitely less on an external HD than an internal SSD in any consideration of data expansion needs.
A Professional Example
In the case of a Macbook Air or Macbook Pro Retina with ‘limited’ storage on the SSD, this distinction becomes more important in that in an ever rapidly increasing file-size world, you keep vital large media files, pics, video, PDF collections, music off your SSD and archived on external storage, for sake of the necessary room for your system to have free space to operate, store future applications and general workspace.
You should also never be put in the position of considering “deleting things” on your Macbook SSD in order to ‘make space’. This is especially what your external HD is for.
Professionals who create and import very large amounts of data have almost no change in the available space on their notebooks internal SSD because they are constantly archiving data to arrays of external or networked HD.
Or in the case of the consumer this means you keep folders for large imported or created data and you ritually offload and archive this data for safekeeping, not only to safeguard the data in case your Macbook has a SSD crash, or gets stolen, but importantly in keeping the ‘breathing room’ open for your notebook to operate, expand, create files, add applications, for your APPS to create temp files, and for general operation.
Slim USB3 1TB external hard drive
External Hard Drives
External hard drives are both extremely cheap and regardless of the size of your internal SSD (or even internal hard drive if the case), you need an external hard drive with your SSD equipped Macbook for several reasons:
1. Data backup and protection.
2. Redundancy for important data.
3. Necessitated ideal space for large media files for collections of pictures, videos, and music etc.
While ever changing in price, typical portable 2.5” external hard drives in USB3 run roughly $65 for 1TB or $120 for 2TB small portable USB3 hard drives. Such drives range in thickness between 5mm and 15mm, with recent improvements in storage of 500GB drives in 5mm profiles.
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imac G5 17" ambient light Mac OS X (10.4.5)Welcome to Apple Discussions.
I'd contact OWC here or give them a call @ 800-275-4576 and see if they can give you tech support through there.
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i have just dowloaded the icloud control panel on my PC and i am am able to see everything that has been pushed to icloud from my ipad. However i cannot see my email. i can send from the computer using icloud, but i do not see any mail that is being received by my ipad, which is set up with my mail server. What haven't i checked lol?
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Nickc111209 wrote:
is there a way to see everything that has been done to this laptop through the apple store?
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Hi eneighbor
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I "Move Project To Trash" first.
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This is the code which we have used.
//////////Return if it is first time for the day or not//////////////
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I created an application and in that application if date is changed the application starts from splash screen on re-entering and if date is not changed and u re-enters the application then it open in page where u leaved.It works with iPod not with iPhone
Try posting in the developer forums to see if you can get some assistance,you'll have to be a registered developer for access though.
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Revision: 5019
Author: [email protected]
Date: 2009-02-19 13:17:21 -0800 (Thu, 19 Feb 2009)
Log Message:
ASDoc updates to indicate that some Halo containers do not work with the Spark equiv (ControlBar does not work with Spark Panel/AppControlBar does not work with Spark Application), and indicate that Canvas, Box, Tile, Panel have Spark equivs
QE Notes: None
Doc Notes: None
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Modified Paths:
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/framework/src/mx/containers/Accordion.as
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/framework/src/mx/containers/ApplicationControlBar.as
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flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/framework/src/mx/containers/ControlBar.as
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/framework/src/mx/containers/HBox.as
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flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/framework/src/mx/containers/TabNavigator.as
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flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/framework/src/mx/containers/ViewStack.asHi DST
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Please let me know how I can delete settings and apps that I uploaded to the cloud. Thanks.
Dear @lonza
Do you mean how to manage backups?
Please check this link that might help you.
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lonza wrote:
Please let me know how I can delete settings and apps that I uploaded to the cloud. Thanks.
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