Cleanup Application Directory & Configuration

Very rarely an error can occure, when starting the application after installing a new version, the error can be caused by files from the old version.

This instruction explains, how to remove the application files and to keep the data for the tours. The cleanup has to be done for the application directory and the configuration.

The data for the tours are saved in the data directory, make a backup before removing files from this folder.

Data directories:
Linux /home/<user name>/mytourbook
Mac OSX /Users/<user name>/mytourbook
Windows C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\mytourbook

 

Application Directory


os linux
Linux

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

 

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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.

 

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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.


 

Configuration

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

Automatic cleanup 

To remove the configuration files, the application can be started with the command line argument -clean

Sometimes the automatic cleanup is not successfull, the manual cleanup needs to be done.

 

Manual cleanup

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