)Can we have uninstallers please!
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- KVRAF
- 35687 posts since 11 Apr, 2010 from Germany
Almost every plugin i have installed has an uninstaller.
That said, it's pretty well documented for u-he though: https://u-he.com/support/faq.html#compa ... :uninstall
So, basically, no registry keys, or writing to other folders than the ones specified. So, you just have to delete the folders, and it's uninstalled.
That said, it's pretty well documented for u-he though: https://u-he.com/support/faq.html#compa ... :uninstall
So, basically, no registry keys, or writing to other folders than the ones specified. So, you just have to delete the folders, and it's uninstalled.
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- u-he
- 30216 posts since 8 Aug, 2002 from Berlin
Yeah, it's one of those forever dragged out projects for something no-one really needs. There's always something else which has a higher priority...
Unfortunately uninstallers on Windows are somewhat tied to applications. As long as we don't have standalone versions, there's somehow no standard way to create an uninstaller.
Unfortunately uninstallers on Windows are somewhat tied to applications. As long as we don't have standalone versions, there's somehow no standard way to create an uninstaller.
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1272 posts since 13 May, 2015
Presets in the Documents folder were not listed but yeah I know you are asked where to put them during install.chk071 wrote: Mon Dec 10, 2018 12:58 pm So, basically, no registry keys, or writing to other folders than the ones specified. So, you just have to delete the folders, and it's uninstalled.
I can't comment on the technical feasibility but I do like to be able to go to the "uninstall or change a program" in the Windows Control panel and perform a click or two........or maybe I am just fooling myself that this route will delete everything.Urs wrote: Mon Dec 10, 2018 1:24 pm Unfortunately uninstallers on Windows are somewhat tied to applications. As long as we don't have standalone versions, there's somehow no standard way to create an uninstaller.
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- u-he
- 30216 posts since 8 Aug, 2002 from Berlin
You can not imagine how many times someone at u-he - a developer, an intern - said "oh, I got some time on my hands, I'll activate uninstallers!", only to find that exporting an uninstaller from the installer builder yields an uninstaller that uninstalls nothing. Sometimes we get a warning like "no application associated with this uninstaller".SHall1000 wrote: Mon Dec 10, 2018 4:28 pmI can't comment on the technical feasibility but I do like to be able to go to the "uninstall or change a program" in the Windows Control panel and perform a click or two........or maybe I am just fooling myself that this route will delete everything.
Maybe it's the whole thing about keeping things simple, in one place. I don't know.
The solution is to either have an actual application (stand alone), or to grow our own code to get rid of anything installed. Latter would, to be effective, need to scan your HD. Creepy stuff, risky even. Or, it would need user interaction to point to files which the user might have moved. Which seems redundant.
So the best thing really is to stick to the uninstall mechanisms that are part of the operating system. Which unfortunately doesn't work for plug-ins the same way as for applications.
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- KVRAF
- 24447 posts since 7 Jan, 2009 from Croatia
Depends on how well they are written, really. 
@Urs - Minihost the plugins and there's your standalone. Not sure if you'd have to license Minihost (probably), but seems like a simple&easy way to go about it?
@Urs - Minihost the plugins and there's your standalone. Not sure if you'd have to license Minihost (probably), but seems like a simple&easy way to go about it?
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- Banned
- 10729 posts since 17 Nov, 2015
clearly not very well at all, either that or i have exclusively used only bad ones in the last 20 years
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1272 posts since 13 May, 2015
OK so uninstallers are not as straight forward as I thought.
@Urs - could we perhaps have an installation log txt file deposited next to the license info txt file just listing which files have been put where. Would reassure the paranoid like me that we have removed everything and from that point of view would be better than an uninstall routine.
@Urs - could we perhaps have an installation log txt file deposited next to the license info txt file just listing which files have been put where. Would reassure the paranoid like me that we have removed everything and from that point of view would be better than an uninstall routine.
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- u-he
- 30216 posts since 8 Aug, 2002 from Berlin
I think it's pretty clear in the user manual, usually on the first few pages?SHall1000 wrote: Wed Dec 12, 2018 3:19 pm OK so uninstallers are not as straight forward as I thought.
@Urs - could we perhaps have an installation log txt file deposited next to the license info txt file just listing which files have been put where. Would reassure the paranoid like me that we have removed everything and from that point of view would be better than an uninstall routine.