Creating a "demo user" to try demos.

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Travis86

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I've been putting off asking this question for a while because it sounds like I'm trying to make my demo last forever, and that's not what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to make it so demos don't leave any clutter behind, and I guess that clutter would include the files that tells the installer that I've had the demo before. It's just that I have a new computer and everything is clean and uncluttered. I don't want files floating around that serve no purpose and that I don't know about.

Would creating a separate user to test demos make it so the clutter files would be confined to that user's home directory? That way I could delete them by deleting that user.

Thanks.
 
I've seen that some apps can just be installed for the current user and not for the system, but many others copy their files in the main library folder, and not on my user's one....
 
Exactly.

Some apps put their files in ~/Library/ and others in /Library/ there's really no way of knowing which they'll use.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if apps that "install for the current user only" actually put their demo registration files in /Library to thwart what you're doing (in principal, not that I'm suggesting you're trying to do something illegal).
 
Isn't there another way to acomplish the same goal?

Isn't there a version of the unix ls command that will tell you which files were updated recently?

Couldn't you simple use that right after an install to see which files it added?
 
I can usually find all the files to an app just by searching for the app name and company name in Finder. The developers hide the demo files sometimes, but you're not trying to thwart that.
 
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