Cleanup Application

The application do sometimes not start after installing a new version because files from the old version are not cleaned up correctly. Eclipse is caching some files which can cause the problem.

These instruction explains, how to remove the application files and keep the data for the tours.

The cleanup has to be done for both

1. Application Directory
2. Configuration

Before you do any file deletions, first you should backup the data directory.

1. Application Directory

Linux

Mac OSX

When you have installed the application with the installation programm, delete all files in the installation directory, the default directory is Applications/MyTourbook

When you have manually installed the application by expanding the zip archive of MyTourbook, delete all files in the location where you have expanded the zip archive but be sure to have not installed it into the data directory, if so then delete the folders features/, plugins/, configuration/ and mytourbook.app/ in the data directory.

Windows

When you have installed the application with the installation programm, the cleanup of the application directory is done automatically.

When you have manually installed the application by expanding the zip archive of MyTourbook, delete all files in the location where you have expanded the zip archive but be sure to have not installed it into the data directory, if you have it done this way, delete the folders features\, plugins\ and configuration\ in the data directory.

2. Configuration

The configuration contains cached data and files for the application and must be cleaned up, the configuration files and folder are saved in the data directory.

Remove the folders org.eclipse.* in the data directory.

Data directory after cleanup

After a successful cleanup, the data directory should contain only these folders: