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Old February 26th, 2006, 08:20 PM
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Originally Posted by tomdkat
Do you mean the OpenOffice installer creates a hidden folder in the Applications folder? Why would you care if it did or not?

Generally speaking, apps on Unix tend to store local settings in a hidden directory (folder) in the user's home directory (folder) so different users can have different settings even though the app is installed in a central/global location.

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I would care because that invisible folder is ~300 MB in size and it's not obvious to the user that he should get rid of it when deleting OOo in order to remove the software. It's not a settings folder, m'dear, it's the actual application that's being hidden, so that it seems as if the OOo.app is a nice Mac OS X-like application.
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