The term "install", in traditional applications, refers to the process of copying files, creating registry entries for drivers and files, starting services, etc. Those activities are required by typical software packages that rely heavily on the tools and resources available in a computer's operating system.
In regards to web applications, the term "install" takes a different meaning. Webmasters often use the term loosely to refer to the process of "uploading" files to a web server. This procedure isn't a typical "install" in the strictest sense of the word.
Therefore, web sites and most web applications are not officially "un-installed", but rather they are simply "removed" from a web server.
So, like deleting a web page from a web site, so too can you simply delete 20/20 DataShed's files.
Below is a screen shot of the folders which contain the 20/20 DataShed source files.
To remove 20/20 DataShed from your web site you can simply delete the folders (and the files) that you see above.
In this screen shot, you can see that the 20/20 DataShed source files have been uploaded directly to the "root" or parent directory of a web site.
If this resembles your configuration, then you should delete the following folders:
And delete all the 20/20 DataShed source files from this parent folder. In our example above, that would be all files except:
These four files do not belong to 20/20 DataShed and are presumably the main pages of the web site -- therefore they should not be removed.
In the following screen shot, you can see that the 20/20 DataShed source files have been uploaded to their own sub-folder -- the entire product is neatly contained in a single sub-folder called "catalog".
If this resembles your configuration, then you can simply delete the "catalog" folder and all of its contents.
When 20/20 DataShed is removed from a web site, it is then necessary to adjust or remove any hyperlinks from other pages of the site that used to point to the 20/20 DataShed listings.asp, login.asp, rss-viewfeeds.asp, and newuser.asp (and others if you created special links directly to specific features of 20/20 DataShed).
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