Then please list files installed - tod3

Apparently the developer isn't too familiar with the Mac way of life - that things can be done automagically, as someone else mentioned, the first time an application is launched. Unless you're going to created files willy-nilly all over the Library, System, Application and Document folders, you don't need an installer. This isn't some massively-complex application that needs to insert its extraneous files here and there like is done in Windows.

Windows users might put up with all the garbage that gets loaded via installers simply because that's the Bill Gates Way. But in the Mac world, we don't like stuff hidden from us, and that's why some of us are asking at least for a list of the files being installed and where they go.

When we want to uninstall an application, it should be as easy as dragging the app to the trash but with apps like this, we have no idea where to find the extraneous stuff so they can be deleted as well.

And you know, this is just one of three "collectors" apps - who knows what the other two install, or if the extra files work together or not, or even what the extra files are for with all three of them.

And as has been pointed out by Alex, the Apple dev guidelines state that simple drag and drop is the best way for apps like this.

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Saturday, January 26 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST

Then please list files installed - tod3

One further comment about installers vs. drag and drop: Many many Mac applications are not simply single files; rather they are themselves packages that contain much of the necessary application support. To check this out go to such apps as Safari, Yep, Pixelmator, and many others, do a right-click on them and you'll see a contextual menu that, among other choices, lets you view the package contents. Click on the Contents folder and you'll see all sorts of internal files for that application. To uninstall the application means dragging to the trash and *poof* all the files are gone.

I sometimes wonder if developers even read the info from Apple for developing Mac apps.

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Saturday, January 26 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST