removing an application

[norman]

> > I have always assumed that when one used Synaptic to totally remove an
> > application that is what happened. So, I opened Synaptic, searched for
> > ufraw found two applications and totally removed them. Then, to make
> > sure there were no files remaining I used search for files and
> > immediately found 47 files all with ufraw in them. Could someone please
> > explain to me what is going on and tell me how I can best remove all the
> > files connected with ufraw.
> > 
> > I need to do this because I am trying to find out why the ufraw I have
> > is not doing what it is supposed to do and it has been suggested that
> > perhaps there are residues of an old version which are interfering with
> > the version I now have. So, I thought that if I removed all the files
> > connected with ufraw and then reinstalled the new version it might solve
> > the problem.
> 
> Where the files that you found? Synaptic will not remove any files in
> the user's home directory associated with ufraw, Only the system files.
> Complete removal should remove system config files. removal only will
> leave the config files and remove everything else.

Yes, the files found were in the home directory. I did use complete
removal so how can I check if all the config files have actually been
removed? 

Norman