mactogo Posted September 12, 2005 Share Posted September 12, 2005 Is there a proper way to do it or do i just simply send the application icon to the trash bin? I've installed palm desktop software in the hope that it would work (NOT!)! It came with an installer but there doesn't seem to be an uninstaller. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sesquipedalian Posted September 12, 2005 Share Posted September 12, 2005 That's the beauty of OS X. Just drag it to the trash, and the app is gone. The way things should be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weeguy Posted September 12, 2005 Share Posted September 12, 2005 Even though that removes the app, it doesn't remove the residual files, such as preferences. In fact, these files are pretty much stored all over the Library folder. In fact, trying to do a clean uninstallation of Adium was quite a headache. The Adium window positions were stored in one folder, the user icons in another, and the adium preferences in yet another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batitombo Posted September 12, 2005 Share Posted September 12, 2005 When I put imovie in the trash I think all of it was gone, at least imovie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyman Posted September 12, 2005 Share Posted September 12, 2005 Yeah, I can confirm that sometimes it is kind of complicated to get rid of all the files, an application installs, like for example Adobe CS2 does. Several hundreds of MB had to be deleted manually! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opera Posted September 12, 2005 Share Posted September 12, 2005 oh... the beauty of OS X. I like a lot of things in OS X but things like that really make it loose points. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mactogo Posted September 13, 2005 Author Share Posted September 13, 2005 i had a hard time uninstalling apps completely. it escapes me why there are no uninstallers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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