He wasn’t aware that the devs actually (tried to) implement Sparkle as updater (he thought they rejeced the proposal). I managed to answer the question how well Tuneup worked in a really polite way – hard to be objective when your system doesn’t manage a restart or any admin actions anymore.

And I did a little research: yes, of course Sparkle does not spread itself over system folders on its own.

thyx

Actually *I* am able to function like that, but not sparkle ;-)
With "apps" I meant the files of an app. And with "folders" tuneup means
"forbidden realms".

Tuneup, please quote this passage: "The fun thing after all is that the album
art feature worked well" … in two of five cases.

Tz, what a mess. At best it’s a good opportunity to realize how well normal
apps behave. I wasn’t suspicious about the admin login because that’s what
apps need to install anyway if you don’t use an admin account.
Well, in retrospect it all started when I realized that the file with the app
name wasn’t the app but the installer…
On tuaw, my comment is still the last, I really wonder what caused that,
perhaps some conflict. But I’ve never those problems before. So…

thyx

TuneUp 1.0
"TuneUp.app" at "/Applications" was installed.
"TuneUp Visualizer.bundle" at "/Library/iTunes/iTunes Plug-ins" was
installed.
"TuneUpMedia" at "/Library" was installed.
"TuneUpMediaPreferences" at "/Users/th/Library/Preferences" was installed.
"expat.framework" at "/Library/Frameworks" was installed.
"SharedMenusCocoa.framework" at "/Library/Frameworks" was installed.
"TuneUpDater.framework" at "/Library/Frameworks" was installed.
"Sparkle.framework" at "/Library/Frameworks" was installed.
"CHBrowserView.dylib" at "/usr/local/lib" was installed.
"libpcrecpp.a" at "/usr/local/lib" was installed.
"libgnsdk_musicid_file.dylib" at "/usr/local/lib" was installed.
"libgnsdk_sdkmanager.dylib" at "/usr/local/lib" was installed.
"libmusicid_osx.dylib" at "/usr/local/lib" was installed.
"libjson.dylib" at "/usr/local/lib" was installed.
"libpcre.0.dylib" at "/usr/local/lib" was installed.
"libjson.0.0.1.dylib" at "/usr/local/lib" was installed.
"libpcreposix.0.0.0.dylib" at "/usr/local/lib" was installed.
"libjson.la" at "/usr/local/lib" was installed.
"libpcre.a" at "/usr/local/lib" was installed.
"libpcre.0.0.1.dylib" at "/usr/local/lib" was installed.
"libjson.a" at "/usr/local/lib" was installed.
"libpcreposix.0.dylib" at "/usr/local/lib" was installed.
"libpcrecpp.lai" at "/usr/local/lib" was installed.
"libpcrecpp.0.dylib" at "/usr/local/lib" was installed.
"libjson.0.dylib" at "/usr/local/lib" was installed.
"libpcrecpp.dylib" at "/usr/local/lib" was installed.
"libpcrecpp.0.0.0.dylib" at "/usr/local/lib" was installed.
"TuneUp Uninstaller.app" at "/Users/th/Library/Logs" was installed.
Installation finished on 2008-12-11 19:40:45 +0100

you saved my day… (or at least some minutes)

I tried out Tuneup yesterday evening. Everything worked interestingly…
After some time – this morning, Berlin – I realized that I couldn’t use my
user login anymore, it just vanished without any chance to enter anything. I
decided to reboot. Only then I realized that my login system was f…d up. I
can’t prove it.
Luckily I’ve read your posts and had two backups at hand.

I removed most of the usr/local/… and /Library/ Frameworks stuff by hand
and everything’s fine now, again.

Btw, the deinstaller’s option to deinstall the sparkle framework reminds of
good old Win 95 days when I had the pleasure to uninstall crucial dlls with
the help of deinstallers…

I can’t prove it 100% – and won’t waste more time to make the issue
repeatable or contact support – but, yes, the
Good to know that AppZapper and probably Hazel etc. aren’t able to manage
that.

thyx

PS In case anyone else needs the full list of installed files I post it according
to the log file. Luckily deleting the ones I could read on Kirk’s screenshot
was good enough.

This app is installing even more than you indicate. See my write-up at http://tomdale.net/2008/12/11/uninstalling-tuneup-for-the-
mac/.