I don't think it's unethical to just show what the heck the app is doing. So it's storing that info somewhere else.and what's even odder is that I used an app uninstaller to delete it, so whatever file it left behind wasn't detected by them. Incidentally, deleting AppDelete's plist file doesn't reset the trial. In principle you might sleuth this out using lsof to see which files are touched while AppDelete starts up. In other words, a file which looks "official" and won't interfere with system functionality, but only AppDelete knows the name and location. It might be stored in something tricky like ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/Metadata/C433D242-DB05-4894-A387-EC5B1B62A540/ABPerson In which case you may never find the file where this data is stored. That being said, the forever war of scummy users vs scummy developers results in this data being written into odd places with unpredictable names. Well behaved apps which trust their potential customers will store this information in a plist in ~/Library/Preferences.ĪppDelete, for example, might store this info in the file:
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