This tutorial explains how to completely remove a program manually. Always remember that before you delete any app, read its user manual or README files carefully to check if it has an automatic uninstaller, or any special manual steps that must be taken to fully remove the app and all its traces.ĭespite the availability of “cleaner” utilities that promise to completely remove unwanted applications and optimise your computer, they are not essential as the procedure is really quite simple. OS X Lion provides an even simpler and almost foolproof method to uninstall apps, which is covered at the end of this tutorial.

Occasionally, it’s desirable to uninstall unwanted or troublesome apps, or simply those which are taking up too much disk space and cluttering up your hard drive. Uninstalling applications in all versions of Mac OS X can be accomplished with relative ease, especially compared to Windows which has an established but somewhat old-fashioned method of adding or removing programs using the control panel.įortunately for Mac users, the vast majority of applications can simply be moved to the Trash and deleted with no repercussions in most cases deleting an application’s executable file is equivalent to uninstalling it, and deleted apps tend not to leave behind much in the way of preference files or settings. Many Mac users will have dozens or even hundreds of apps installed on their computer.

How to uninstall a program on mac osx