Comment détecter des fichiers liés à une application sur un Mac
Question
Je me demande comment une application comme Appzapper peut détecter les fichiers liés à une application?
Toutes idées sont les bienvenues.
Merci pour votre aide,
Cordialement,
La solution
By looking into the standard locations that usually are used by applications to store preferences (like Library/Preferences
/ , Library/Caches
, etc., both in your home directory ~/
and under /
) I couldn´t find any file or folder that isn´t using either the applications name (eg. ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox
) or it´s bundle identifier (eg. ~/Library/Preferences/org.mozilla.firefox.plist
) in its name; so I guess they´re just using that.
In the case of AppZapper you can go ahead and try for any (not currently running) Application to rename the ~/Library/Application Support/AppName
folder for example to ~/Library/Application Support/111AppName
- AppZapper doesn´t find it anymore. If you change it to ~/Library/Application Support/AppName111
it shows up as a related file.
Out of this you can conclude that there isn´t any magical linkage between a folder full of preferences and it´s associated application that AppZapper is reading out, it´s merely checking for folders starting with the Application´s Name.