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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by ajdlinux on Saturday December 08, 2018 @07:45PM (#18638456)
> The items mentioned above should be done periodically, not just once

While helpful advice - if you need to do this manual maintenance regularly, the application is broken.

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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by mixmastamyk on Sunday December 09, 2018 @12:38PM (#18642081)
Possibly, hard to know over this medium. I’ve never encountered the problem, but added the tasks to my cleanup command.
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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by ajdlinux on Monday December 10, 2018 @02:01AM (#18645818)
Not to denigrate the hard work of developers (particularly open source developers) who work on very complex application software like Thunderbird, but software designed for regular users needs to cope without cleanup scripts. (Yes, yes, I know that reinstalling Windows from scratch is a time honoured tradition...)
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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by mixmastamyk on Monday December 10, 2018 @11:56AM (#18649221)
Sure. My cleanup script however does multiple things, tbird maintenance is only a tiny part.
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