Registry not cleared after removing channel

Are you signing multiple apps with the same key?
I believe apps that share a development key also share a single registry section. In this case, the registry would only clear if you delete all apps using that key.

Hi Tyler,

That would explain it. We are using the same developer ID for signing all our internal test channels. 
I should have read the docs better I guess...

Thanks!

So if that's the case, how do you go about fixing it? Is there an event for when the channel is explicitly removed or something? 

Fixing what? Tyler already gave the solution if you're signing multiple apps/channels with the same key. You have to remove them all (and reboot, I believe) to clear the registry. If you don't like this behavior, then always generate a new key for every channel you develop.

-JT

"renojim" wrote:
Fixing what?  Tyler already gave the solution if you're signing multiple apps/channels with the same key.  You have to remove them all (and reboot, I believe) to clear the registry.  If you don't like this behavior, then always generate a new key for every channel you develop.

-JT

That's not a solution though. If there a bunch of apps (5+) and you can't remove them all and also cannot generate a new key for each one, what's the best option? 
Not looking for a "tough luck," answer. Looking for something actually constructive. 

Unfortunately, I think "tough luck" is the answer. It's not likely the current behavior will ever be changed because there's probably as many reasons for it as against it.

Sorry,
-JT

What's the problem you're trying to solve? You can manually or programmatically edit the registry, clear out parts of it if you want. Is it getting too full or something?

I am having this problem too, clearing the Registry of user information (logging in/logging out).

I'm using the new SG framework, and it has a deleteRegistry sub function in generalUtilies that looks like this:

sub deleteRegistry(keySection="" As String)
    print "Starting Delete Registry"
    Registry = CreateObject("roRegistry")
    i = 0
    
    if keySection <> "" then
            RegistrySection = CreateObject("roRegistrySection", keySection)
            for each key in RegistrySection.GetKeyList()
                i = i+1
                print "Deleting " keySection + ":" key
                RegistrySection.Delete(key)
            end for 
            RegistrySection.flush()
    else
    
        for each section in Registry.GetSectionList()
            RegistrySection = CreateObject("roRegistrySection", section)
            for each key in RegistrySection.GetKeyList()
                i = i+1
                print "Deleting " section + ":" key
                RegistrySection.Delete(key)
            end for
            RegistrySection.flush()
        end for
        
    end if
    
    print i.toStr() " Registry Keys Deleted"
end sub

And I call it with 

 deleteRegistry("nameOfRegasString")

However, it seems like this data is still persisting. Has anyone else experienced this and had better luck??


UPDATE: I removed flush() from this function, and that seems to help the problem. I read that flush actually persists data to storage, even in the event of a reboot, so that would make sense why things were still persisting. I'm not 100% sure this was the issue, or if this even resolved....has anyone else had a similar experience with flush()?

"lisakb140" wrote:
.has anyone else had a similar experience with flush()?

If you're not flush()-ing. the data in question won't be saved.  Now, maybe that's what you want, and maybe not. If you are having trouble with things persisting, it means you are not deleting the right things, when you think you are.

"squirreltown" wrote:

"lisakb140" wrote:
.has anyone else had a similar experience with flush()?

If you're not flush()-ing. the data in question won't be saved.  Now, maybe that's what you want, and maybe not. If you are having trouble with things persisting, it means you are not deleting the right things, when you think you are.

Thanks, yes, I'm using this when a user logs out of the channel. When I included flush() in this deleteRegistry function, even after going through the steps of "logging out", it still seemed like they would be logged in. 
I guess what I don't understand is why there would be a call to persist data in a function that is supposed to be deleting a registry...it seems counter-productive!