Trash files left by Office 2008 Installer

[aRKay]

I have been trying to clean up my hard drive and noticed
the Office 2008 installer left all kinds of junk files in the directory

root Macintosh HD/Library/Reciepts

Do these files server any purpose and can they be deleted?

Looks like very sloppy programming of an updater in 2009



This is the suspect trash I am talking about

Office2008_en_automator_workflow.pkg
Office2008_en_automator.pkg
Office2008_en_fonts.pkg
Office2008_en_helpviewer.pkg
Office2008_en_errorreporting.pkg
Office2008_en_autoupdate.pkg
Office2008_en_silverlight.pkg
Office2008_en_required.pkg
Office2008_en_launch.pkg
Office2008_en_sounds.pkg
Office2008_en_orgchart.pkg
Office2008_en_ooxml.pkg
Office2008_en_graph.pkg
Office2008_en_equationeditor.pkg
Office2008_en_clipart.pkg
Office2008_en_core.pkg
Office2008_en_proofing_swedish.pkg
Office2008_en_proofing_spanish.pkg
Office2008_en_proofing_brazilian.pkg
Office2008_en_proofing_portuguese.pkg
Office2008_en_proofing_norwegian.pkg
Office2008_en_proofing_japanese.pkg
Office2008_en_proofing_italian.pkg
Office2008_en_proofing_german.pkg
Office2008_en_proofing_french.pkg
Office2008_en_proofing_finnish.pkg
Office2008_en_proofing_english.pkg
Office2008_en_proofing_dutch.pkg
Office2008_en_proofing_danish.pkg
Office2008_en_messenger.pkg
Office2008_en_entourage_help_std.pkg
Office2008_en_entourage.pkg
Office2008_en_powerpoint_help_std.pkg
Office2008_en_powerpoint.pkg
Office2008_en_excel_help_std.pkg
Office2008_en_excel.pkg
Office2008_en_word_help_std.pkg
Office2008_en_word.pkg

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

I have been trying to clean up my hard drive and noticed
the Office 2008 installer left all kinds of junk files in the directory

root Macintosh HD/Library/Reciepts

It's not junk, they are supposed to be there. It's part of
theinstallation process and every installer using a .pkg or .mpkg does
the same.

Do these files server any purpose and can they be deleted?

Keep them.

Looks like very sloppy programming of an updater in 2009

Talk to Apple ;-) They're the ones who made the Installer.app that uses
this format.

Corentin

 

[aRKay]

It's not junk, they are supposed to be there. It's part of
theinstallation process and every installer using a .pkg or .mpkg does
the same.

Keep them.


Talk to Apple ;-) They're the ones who made the Installer.app that uses
this format.

Corentin

Thanks..... I am not messing with them