![]() ![]() I do like AppDelete’s droplet functionality (very simple, just drag an app on its icon to invoke it), but this reveals yet another critical flaw for anyone with more than a few apps to delete at one sitting: AppDelete can’t handle more than one at a time.Īs anyone who regularly reads this site knows, I’m a huge fan of good freeware, but in this case you really don’t get much for free, and a huge amount for just $10 more. But I’d prefer to know this ahead of time. AppZapper is also similar in design and function to AppCleaner and AppDelete (apart from a neat 'zap' sound that plays every time you delete something). Fortunately, it does leave a folder in the Trash showing what it found to delete. Next up is AppZapper, with a name that is very much in line with the previous two options. Besides this rather critical function, AppDelete doesn’t give you any kind of preview of what it will be doing. I keep my home folder on another partition, and AppDelete probably doesn’t handle that use case. This is simply incomplete programming, I think. For example, in several tests today, AppDelete didn’t even find and delete my preferences file. In my tests, AppDelete simply didn’t find all the pieces a typical Mac OS X app leaves behind when you delete the application package. OK, I definitely advise Mac users who have $10 to go buy CleanApp instead of using AppDelete. ![]() From the website, it’s clear that this is the developer’s first Mac application, so I’ll tread carefully. Now, AppDelete is here, and it sounds like the same sort of product, but with no price tag attached. It came out around the same time as AppZapper and gets good reviews. It works fine, but I’ve been meaning to try out CleanApp for some time now. Earlier in the year, I bought AppZapper for $10 to help delete old apps and their associated files. Having the developer asisst in deleting is the best method.AppDelete: will delete the application you choose and any associated items Without AppDelete these associated items will be left behind to take up space and potentially cause issues. If the wrong files are deleted the computer may refuse to reboot and function. AppDelete is an uninstaller for Macs that will remove not only applications but also widgets, preference panes, plugins, and screensavers along with their associated files. There are zillions of programs and they are changing all the time, it's impossible to keep up with it all. I do not recommend "AppDelete" type programs for the fact that they only do a search and display, then one just assumes the program knows all the appropriate files to delete and it's often wrong. You can use the free Easy Find and attempt to locate files, however it's very dangerous unless your sure. You can use this to find and open your Users/Library folderĭeleting the System Preference or other. So the best method is to find out from the developer where all the files are, and ones not deleted if the app is merely dragged to the trash. Nearly all programs create preference files that are located in a hidden folder in each user account, these normally don't get uninstalled because you might just be deleting and reinstalling to fix a issue, thus your preferenes (small files) are saved.Īlso some software might install files elsewhere and not delete them. However some programs are all self contained and can be simply trashed with no later on issues. If you drag a program to the trash, doesn't mean you got all the code. In general, removing apps from Macs is a simple matter of deleting the. You should use the developers uninstall method first because some software is intstalled into OS X and other places and only the developer knows. Download of the Day: AppDelete (Mac) Mac OS X only: Freeware program AppDelete is an uninstaller for Mac applications. (there are many alternatives that perform the same function)Īfter uninstalling an app I often run the free EasyFind to search for related files and carefully review its findings and deleting as appropriate: Some use an app such as AppCleaner to delete applications, but they don't always find every associated file, and some have concerns that they may delete some files that are unrelated to the app you are deleting with unpredicatable consequences. If an app was installed by running an installer, rather than being dragged and dropped into the Applications folder, the best way to remove it would be to use the developers uninstaller app which should find all the related files and delete them. It's possible some small associated files may get left behind. If an app was installed by simply dragging to the Applications folder it's OK to drag the app to the Trash to delete it. ![]() Some things probably do get left behind, but depending on how the app was installed could determine what gets left behind when an app is deleted. ![]()
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