Uninstall File Filters Page

The Uninstall File Filters allow you to prevent removing system-critical files while uninstalling a generated deployment package. All changes to files and folders in the filtered folder that are captured by the Live Monitoring technology are treated as permanent. To configure the Uninstall File Filters open the program preferences using the Preferences button from the Application Menu and click the Uninstall File Filters link on the navigation bar on the left of the Preferences dialog within the Filters group Pic 1.

The filters are divided into two categories; those are User Filters and System Filters. The system filters are predefined ones and cannot be deleted, but can be disabled, if required, using the Disable Selected item from the pop-up menu. You can then re-enable any filter using the Enable Selected menu item. To enable/disable a filter and to check if it is enabled, you can use the check boxes located on the left of each row representing the filter. It is also possible to refuse filtering files and folders from uninstall by disabling the Use the following filters option.

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As for the user filters, those are the user-defined ones. To add a new filter, use the Add Filter item from the pop-up menu or press the Add Filter button on the toolbar.

When configuring an Uninstall File Filter Pic 2, you should provide a file system path to be treated as persistent. No files and folders in the specified path, including the one represented with this path, will be deleted while uninstalling a generated deployment package. You can provide the path manually or select it through the file picker using the button built into the edit box. It is possible to use the system folder definition placeholders while specifying the filter, these placeholders are automatically replaced with the corresponding file system paths during a deployment package uninstall process. See System Folder Definition Placeholders section of this document for the list of available placeholders.

The and buttons built into the edit box can help you with replacing specific paths to their system folder definitions and vice versa. If you enable the Use a regular expression while specifying the filter value option, you can define a filter that will treat as permanent all paths matching the expression. See the How should I correctly specify the filter value? section of this document for a detailed description of possible values.

A filter can be used in specific environments if you configure conditions for it. On the Conditions tab Pic 3 you can specify the Operating System, the Build Number (of the OS) and the Platform where the filter should be applied. You can use one or multiple criteria together with the comparison operators to specify environments for the filter. If you specify a condition, you can see its value in the filters list. Using conditions can be helpful if you plan to perform monitoring on different OSs so that you can configure OS/platform-specific filters, if required.

To edit a user-defined Uninstall File Filter select it in the filters table and choose the Edit menu item from the pop-up menu or press the Edit button on the toolbar. The filter editing process is similar to the above-stated creation process. To delete the user-defined filters that are no longer needed, you can select those items in the filters table and choose the Delete menu item from the pop-up menu or press the Delete button on the toolbar. It is also possible to delete all user-defined filters using the Clear User Filters menu item and the corresponding button on the toolbar.