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Deleting a specific file

  • June 29, 2010
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Hi-

Has anyone tried deploying the latest Flash plugin? Adobe's moved away from their pkg installer to the .app installer which means that instead of having to just drag the pkg into Casper Admin, it now needs packaging. I swear Adobe…

Anyway, Safari easily finds the new plugin and reports the correct version, however Firefox does not. In order to do so, a file needs to be deleted so that it's rebuilt, pluginreg.dat, which lives in the Firefox profile folder. The problem with that is the <random thing>.default. I tried using the advanced tab configured as shown, but it didn't seem to do anything.

I must be doing it wrong… Anyone?

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Jared F. Nichols
Desktop Engineer, Client Services
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MIT Lincoln Laboratory
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    • dkucmierz
    • Contributor
    • June 29, 2010

    just fyi- if you open up the app bundle, the installer pkg is inside it

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    David Kucmierz
    Mesquite ISD Technical Services
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    • jarednichols
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    • June 29, 2010

    Uhh.... I knew that.

    :)
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    Jared F. Nichols
    Desktop Engineer, Client Services
    Information Services Department
    MIT Lincoln Laboratory
    244 Wood Street
    Lexington, Massachusetts 02420
    781.981.5436

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    • tlarkin
    • Honored Contributor
    • June 29, 2010

    You can wild card the profile since it is random numbers, and if you
    are 1 user per a machine you'll be fine, if not use a log in hook policy
    that grabs the currently logged in user and applies it to theirs.

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    • John_Wetter
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    • June 29, 2010

    Though it looks like this got taken care of, I’ll mention that the check boxes only work straight across from each line. That is, the ‘delete if found’ box is only good for the “Search for file by path” line, etc.
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    John Wetter
    Technical Services Manager
    Educational Technology, Media & Information Services
    Hopkins Public Schools
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    • RWitt
    • Contributor
    • January 28, 2013

    Just so we are not spreading false information that is not true about the check marks needing to be across from each other. I regularly uninstall firefox using the search file by name and deleting it if found as it is in the example above.

    Ryan Witt
    iPad Specialist / PC Technician
    Johnston Community School District

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    • RWitt
    • Contributor
    • January 28, 2013

    since that post is two years old now that could have been an update. So my bad on seeing how old the post was

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