You can also use Spotlight to go ahead and search for documents created by that application. You can do a search of the application and it will usually come up with any other aliases, or maybe an extra file somewhere that you didn't find. If there's an alias in the dock, just drag it out of the dock. If you've created an aliased application anywhere you want to get rid of that as well. However some applications go beyond that and actually go ahead and create a folder, so for instance the spore creature creator created an entire folder in here and put a bunch of stuff in it, so you can just remove that whole folder. So, for instance look for com dot and then the name of the developer, say Apple, and then the name of the application dot plist. But other than that, you can basically go and look for files that have names that somehow match your application. So, chances are you'll probably skip this step if all you're worried about is reclaiming some hard-drive space.
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Now, these files are really, really small ones, because they're just going to be bits of information storing like, where you like your windows and what the options are for the program. Click on that and your going to find even more files. Chances are they have, if they've ever used it.Īlso in your libraries folders, you'll find a folder for preferences. You want to check every library folder, not just at the system level but also in your user folder and check to see if other users on the same machine, if you have more than one user on the machine, also have an application support folder for that application. So you can find the one that you've just uninstalled and drag that to the trash as well. You'll find folders for just about every application you have installed. So, look in there, and see really quickly if there's any folder that at the library level like this Acrobat User Data folder, but most likely it's going to be in the Application Support folder.
Chances are, anything an application puts in a library folder is going to be in your user library folder. There's a library folder in your main hard-drive level for the whole system and there's one in your user folder. So the next place you want to look is your libraries folders, there's several of them. That's how a single application can be a single file even though it must be more complex than that.Īnyway, getting rid of the folder or the application itself will get rid of most of what you need for deleting an application.
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So in other words, there's a subset of folders called 'packages' that are basically folders full of stuff. This will open up an entire other window that contains all the file contents of that package. So for instance, if we click on Firefox here, and we ctrl+click on it, one of the options is 'show package contents'. Well actually, these single files are folders full of stuff. However, you'll notice a lot of these applications are a single file and you think: how can this application just be a single file? Aren't usually applications a whole folder full of stuff? You'll see all your applications here and you can drag your application to the trash. So of course the first place you want to go is your applications folder. Let's go and take a look at where to find these extra files, so you can get rid of them, if you want to, when uninstalling an application. Most notably, they store some preferences in your preferences folder, but they can also store support files in your library folder. So theoretically, uninstalling applications is as easy as finding the application in your applications folder, dragging it to the trash, and you're done.īut, applications usually store a little bit more information elsewhere on your drive.
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Today, let's look at how to uninstall applications in Mac OS X. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with MacMost Now
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