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alin23 on Feb 18, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Making macOS Apps Uninstallable

Application support files are still new files that get created from scratch, not moved from the application bundle.

It’s possible there’s misunderstanding in what we both consider application files. Anything that exists in the AppName.app bundle never gets modified, deleted or moved. And it’s not possible to create any new file in that bundle, not even symlinks, without invalidating the signature.

detrites on Feb 18, 2023 [–]

Thanks for explaining. That makes sense.

For any files that need to be modified, my suggestion would not work at all. But I'm sure there's cases developers could symlink unmodifiable files.

I know I've seen anything and everything in the users Library folder. (Application launch splash screens for example.)

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