Suggestion: Database treatment upon uninstallation

Started by Hudson-N1

Hudson-N1

Suggestion: Database treatment upon uninstallation   30 July 2019, 14:16

I think that not deleting user data upon uninstallation is a common practice these days, but today I was caught by surprise by networx's behaviour. I was about to change Networx's filter driver implementation, thought that maybe I should completely uninstall and reinstall the software. Turns out that the database (\ProgramData\Softperfect\Networx\*) was completely erased during uninstallation, as well as previous settings. I think it would be a good idea to give user choices during uninstallation about whether to preserve the database (it can grow quite large) or notify users about undeleted database and preferences.
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Re: Suggestion: Database treatment upon uninstallation   30 July 2019, 16:08

Good point, we will add a prompt like this in the next release. It will pop up at the end of uninstallation:

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Thanks, my database did not die in vain wink smile

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