Fixing TweetDeck and Adobe Air Apps

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TweetDeck is a great Twitter client that allows you to manage volumes of communication most efficiently. After installing and using TweetDeck  for awhile I closed a few of the content panes. Later I closed a few more. Down to a single pane I accidentally closed that one too. Apparently in the clients (as of v0.19.3b) there are no options to open new panes anywhere in the main window. All these options are in the content panes themselves. So here i have stuck with this great tool but no way to view any content. What to do. I promptly uninstalled and reinstalled TweetDeck…no good. Uninstalled TweetDeck all the rest of my Adobe Air apps then reinstalling the all again. Nope still broke. So I dug a bit and found that the AIR apps can store data locally in cache files. These files apparently aren’t cleaned up on uninstall. After locating the cache files and a quick reinstall of TweetDeck all is well.

If you ever have issues with Adobe Air App preferences look for the cache files on your drive. Mine were at C:\Documents and Settings\[user]\Application Data\TweetDeckFast.[guid] and C:\Documents and Settings\[guid]\Application Data\Adobe\AIR\ELS\TweetDeckFast.[guid]

Deleting these files fixed my problems and allowed for a clean reinstall.