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Posted by Eric Baines on September 26, 2005, 4:16 am
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I'd go for one of two possibilities:-
1) Factory reset the phone and re-install all the OK apps and configurations
2) Don't worry about it.
Not necessarily in that order.
"MS" wrote:
> I am not a developer, but I have a problem that perhaps only the developers
> could solve, therefore the post to the developer forums.
>
> On my Windowsmobile 2003 Smartphone (Audiovox SMT5600) I found a .tmp file
> in the folder \Storage\Windows\AppMgr from an application that had been
> uninstalled. (In a subfolder with the application's name.) I of course tried
> to delete the file and its subfolder, as I had uninstalled that application.
> I tried with various file managers, and with Explore from the Desktop via
> ActiveSync, but I always got an error message, that I could not delete that
> file, and therefore that folder.
>
> In looking at the "Properties" of that file, I saw it has the attribute
> "System". I tried to uncheck that attribute. A couple file managers would
> not let me uncheck that box at all. A couple others would let me uncheck
> that box----but------after clicking OK, file would still not delete, and if
> I went to "Properties" again, I'd see the System attribute checked again. In
> ActiveSync Explore/Properties the checked System attribute was grayed out,
> no way to uncheck it.
>
> So---I have not been able to find any way to delete a .tmp file installed by
> a program that has been uninstalled!
>
> I did a Google search for the problem, and found out that it is indeed not
> just my phone, and not just that one application. Many people have had this
> problem (on PPCs as well), some have many such undeletable "system" files,
> left over from uninstalled apps, clogging their system. Apparently it is
> impossible in WindowsMobile 2003 to remove the system attribute from a file
> (at least by any kind of normal means), which makes it impossible to delete,
> rename, move that file, even though said file is not really part of the
> system! (Of course, one way to delete it would be a hard reset, completely
> wiping out all apps and configurations, but that is a major hassle, starting
> over from scratch!)
>
> I can understand that files in ROM would not be changeable, and that perhaps
> Microsoft wished to protect the OS by making it impossible to alter or
> delete system files. However, that should only pertain to files that are
> really part of the OS. If it is impossible to change a file with the
> attribute "system", then third party app developers should not be able to
> mark their installed files with that attribute, which makes it impossible
> for users to delete them, even after uninstallation.
>
> What if a virus or spyware writer used that "system" attribute, to put
> viruses or spyware on a user's system, and those malware files could then
> not be deleted, due to that "system" attribute?
>
> I sure hope this problem is fixed in WM2005!
>
> Is there any way around this, any way I can delete that "system" file left
> over by an uninstalled app? It looks like it can't be done by normal means,
> therefore I'm posting this to the developer's NGs, in that developers might
> know some way to get around this limitation. Perhaps a different way to boot
> up the phone, where the system files might be changeable? Or, a way for the
> files to be accessed by the desktop PC (in a different way than ActiveSync
> Explore, as that does not allow the changing of "system" files)?
>
> Are there any applets that will do this-- change the system attribute,
> allowing for deletion?
>
> I hope someone will post a solution to this problem, and describe it in a
> way that not only a developer/programmer would understand, but users as
> well. (at least a so-called "power user").
>
> I would appreciate any response that could help with this problem, and I'm
> sure others would as well.
>
> Thank you.
>
>
>
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