how to delete

[Susi]

Hello i just would like to know how to delete wesnoth so that all my saves, addons etc. are gone when i download it again i'm using Mac (and don't ask why do i want to delete it)

[monochromatic]

I assume you are on Mac? There's a really nice app called AppCleaner. It will not only delete the targeted application itself, but it will search for and ask to delete all related preferences/saves/user data.

[Susi]

great where can i get one or is it http://lmgtfy.com/

[Gambit]

Uninstall normally, and then manually delete userdata. Quicker, cleaner, and no third parties.

[monochromatic]

AppCleaner

[Susi]

ok done thanks all who answared to this ya were great help

[ancestral]

In the future, should anyone else come across this thread, all you need to do is delete an extra folder.

Likely application path:
/Applications/Wesnoth

User data path for Wesnoth through 1.6:
~/Library/Preferences/Wesnoth_1.x

User data path for Wesnoth from 1.7:
~/Library/Application Support/Wesnoth_1.x

[Araja]

And next time, check the box for "store userdata in the install location".

[Dixie]

And next time, check the box for "store userdata in the install location".

Doesn't work that way on mac, sorry There's no installer, you just slide the app where you want it, and it'll automatically create userdata where it needs it.

[Zarel]

Also, I'm concerned that you took enough effort to type "great where can i get one or is it http://lmgtfy.com/" but not to actually Google it. Why?

[Telaron]

Doesn't work that way on mac, sorry There's no installer, you just slide the app where you want it, and it'll automatically create userdata where it needs it.

Yeah, I know. That's one of the great things about Mac that Windows, to my mind, completely fails in. In Windows, when you install a app, there are files all over the computer that, once the game is uninstalled, cannot be deleted at all. I hated that when I had a Windows. If you attempt to delete the files before uninstalling, you still get a load of crap about not being able to delete certain files blablabla... (maybe I was just missing something???) You may, eventually, get all the files out of there, but it takes a lot of hunting. In Mac, the is app is just installed in one place - not in two or three different folders throughout the computer- and it is so much easier to delete games etc that you don't want. Others may have a different opinion, but I say that Mac is a lot better than Windows in many ways. I'm glad I switched over to Mac.

[Zarel]

Doesn't work that way on mac, sorry There's no installer, you just slide the app where you want it, and it'll automatically create userdata where it needs it.

To be exact, the userdata is nearly always in ~/Library/Application Support/[app name]/