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| From | Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.mobile.android |
| Subject | Re: WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall |
| Date | 2021-01-13 15:32 +0000 |
| Organization | NOYB |
| Message-ID | <rtn79v.71c.1@ID-201911.user.individual.net> (permalink) |
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&y <reply@group.please> wrote:
[...]
> Thanks for putting my mind at rest on this situation. Usually, when I
> uninstall a program from my android devices, everything gets deleted, so I
> was unpleasantly surprised when I found a Whatsapp folder still there after
> uninstalling it. Thanks again Carlos.
You should have been "unpleasantly surprised" if the uninstall *did*
remove the WhatsApp folder!
(As others also explained.) It contains *your* *data*. It's nobody's
business to delete it, unless the uninstall procedure asked for your
approval to delete. (Yes, I did ask about your *media* and you said it
was OK to delete that, but it didn't ask about your messages ('Chats' in
WhatsApp lingo)).
Compare it to any other software, Say you've generated other user
data, such as text, spreadsheets, photos, music, e-mail, Usenet postings
:-), <anything> and you uninstall say your photo viewer and it decides
to - *silently* - delete all your thousands of photos! Not a very nice
thing to do, is it!?
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WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall &y <reply@group.please> - 2021-01-12 20:27 +0000
Re: WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2021-01-12 22:09 +0100
Re: WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall &y <reply@group.please> - 2021-01-12 21:19 +0000
Re: WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2021-01-12 22:24 +0100
Re: WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall &y <reply@group.please> - 2021-01-12 22:59 +0000
Re: WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2021-01-13 16:09 +0100
Re: WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2021-01-13 15:32 +0000
Re: WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall &y <reply@group.please> - 2021-01-13 17:07 +0000
Re: WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2021-01-13 18:36 +0000
Re: WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall &y <reply@group.please> - 2021-01-13 19:47 +0000
Re: WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2021-01-13 20:03 +0000
Re: WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2021-01-13 20:28 +0000
Re: WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall Piet <www.godfatherof.nl/@opt-in.invalid> - 2021-01-13 21:29 +0100
Re: WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2021-01-13 23:03 +0100
Re: WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2021-01-13 22:37 +0000
Re: WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2021-01-13 23:55 +0100
Re: WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2021-01-14 13:40 +0000
Re: WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2021-01-12 23:02 +0000
Re: WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall &y <reply@group.please> - 2021-01-13 10:11 +0000
Re: WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2021-01-13 16:10 +0100
Re: WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall &y <reply@group.please> - 2021-01-13 17:15 +0000
Re: WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2021-01-13 23:05 +0100
Re: WhatsApp leftovers after uninstall David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> - 2021-01-13 14:59 +0000
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