How to delete applications on Mac OS X
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Apple would like you to believe that just dragging the .app file to the trash will erase the program from your computer. This is not true…. at all.
Turns out, whenever you install or run programs, they usually put information about themselves all around your hard drive. “Easy” way to get rid of all these is to type the program’s name into Spotlight and hope it catches all of them so you can delete them. Sadly, this is time consuming and doesn’t always delete everything. How do you do this easily though? I have found a program that is the best possible. It is called AppDelete, and it is, by far, the best program I ahve found for this.
It goes through all your files and finds any that relate to that program and puts them in a folder in your trash so you can see what all is in there. I would highly recommend this to anyone running OS X so no one will have to clutter up their hard drive with random files that apply to programs they don’t have anymore. Go check it out!
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Doug
June 18th, 2008
at 4:08am
Another alternative, although you have to pay for it and it does the same thing is AppZapper. The only real difference is AppZapper has sound effects.
http://www.appzapper.com/
But for the price, FREE, AppDelete is fine for me. I’ve been using it for about 4 months.
scott
June 19th, 2008
at 9:15am
AppDelete is not FREE. The second time i tried to use it i got a “required” donation of $5 via PayPal alert with on other option than “cancel”.
requiring a donation no longer makes the program FREE!
I have never gotten that.