OK, I have been having a few problems where I needed to re-set some apps like firefox and messenger.
So, i did the usual like deleting the firefox program from apps and getting rid of preferences from my user profile, up until today, I was having no joy at all, as soon as I reinstalled the program from the dmg everything came - like favourite still there all my original settings.
So i tried a more intensive search and used spotlight - which seemed useless as it only showed the obvious like the program in applications and bizzarely none of the preference files.
Anyways, with firefox today I had some joy as I labouriously went though my user prefs and the 'macintosh hd' prefs and caches and applications folders to get rid of scraps of everything and finally managed to get a clean re-install of firefox.
Unfortunately I am having no joy with messenger, it seems like it is starting anew however as soon as i log in it has remembered my avatar and i get the same problem i have been having with it of late ( i cannot receive file transfers (when i can with adium)).
So my issues really are;
1) why isnt spotlight showing me every little file related to messenger or mozilla / firefox?
2) Is there an easier way of completely deleting messenger or can someone tell me where the location of the important profile files are - hey at least on windows the uninstaller does the deleting for you.
FYI the machine i am having these issues with is my mac mini on OSX Tiger (latest update).
So, i did the usual like deleting the firefox program from apps and getting rid of preferences from my user profile, up until today, I was having no joy at all, as soon as I reinstalled the program from the dmg everything came - like favourite still there all my original settings.
So i tried a more intensive search and used spotlight - which seemed useless as it only showed the obvious like the program in applications and bizzarely none of the preference files.
Anyways, with firefox today I had some joy as I labouriously went though my user prefs and the 'macintosh hd' prefs and caches and applications folders to get rid of scraps of everything and finally managed to get a clean re-install of firefox.
Unfortunately I am having no joy with messenger, it seems like it is starting anew however as soon as i log in it has remembered my avatar and i get the same problem i have been having with it of late ( i cannot receive file transfers (when i can with adium)).
So my issues really are;
1) why isnt spotlight showing me every little file related to messenger or mozilla / firefox?
2) Is there an easier way of completely deleting messenger or can someone tell me where the location of the important profile files are - hey at least on windows the uninstaller does the deleting for you.
FYI the machine i am having these issues with is my mac mini on OSX Tiger (latest update).