Installation guide

9. Uninstalling BlueDragon

The following sections describe uninstalling BlueDragon on Windows, Linux, and Mac

OS X.

9.1 Protecting Previous Work, Settings, and Logs

Before uninstalling, be cautioned that the BlueDragon uninstall process attempts to

remove all directories and files where BlueDragon was installed, which may include

useful work and information that you may want to protect (especially if you’re planning

to then install a new release).

As of the 6.2 release, the BlueDragon uninstaller does try to preserve many of these prior

work files. It now removes adapter installations, services, menu links, and all files and

folders in the BlueDragon installation directory. Exceptions are made for the directories

"classes", "customtags", and "wwwroot" when their contents have been modified. These

directories are then preserved by renaming them with a ".save" extension.

If you used BlueDragon’s built-in web server and had created or placed any files in the

BlueDragon directory’s

wwwroot subdirectory, be sure to copy those to some form of

backup before uninstalling. Similarly, if you used custom tags, database drivers, servlets,

other java classes, or the

CFREGISTRY tag to create data in the simulated BlueDragon

registry (see the BlueDragon 6.2.1 Compatibility Guide for more information), or if you

care to preserve the various logs created by BlueDragon and possibly your applications,

you’ll want to back up those as well. This is discussed further in section 8.4.

When the uninstall process is completed, there may be a few directories and/or files

remaining from the uninstall process (such as web server adapter libraries that may have

been in use when BlueDragon was uninstalled). These can generally be safely deleted.

You will also find an uninstall log file in the BlueDragon Uninstall directory.

9.2 Uninstalling on Windows

The BlueDragon uninstaller can be invoked from the Add/Remove Programs Control Panel

or by double-clicking the BlueDragon uninstaller icon which is located in the

uninstall sub-directory of the BlueDragon installation directory. The graphical

uninstaller requires a minimum of 8-bit color depth (256 colors) and a minimum 640 x

480 screen resolution.

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