Uninstall Archiver Application in Mac OS X – Archiver removal steps from Mac OS X

Want to uninstall Archiver apps? Not able to find a way to uninstall Archiver completely from your Mac Machine? Is your Mac machine giving error after manually uninstalling Archiver application?

Uninstalling Archiver in mac is just a different approach than in Windows OS. Windows OS provides a option to uninstall application or application manufactures provides uninstaller with the application. But in Mac OS X there is nothing like uninstall utility. To uninstall the Archiver you simply need to drag & drop the Archiver application bundles to trash, that's it. STOP this is not the end there is more to properly uninstalling the Archiver from your machine.

Archiver Bundles – The Application Bundle

Drag & Drop leaves the associated files of Archiver application. Normally, it is thought that all the associated files of a application is saved in the one folder but it is not so. Archiver supported files & preference files are saved in other location than the Archiver Package folder. So you need to get all these files deleted manually. Deleting all the left overs of Archiver is not that easy, you need to find all the location where Archiver has saved the files. Some of the location where Archiver would have saved the files are ~/Library/Preferences/[] ~/Library/Application Support/[]

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Using Finder the remove the Archiver Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall Archiver & all associated files

Start the Activity monitor to look for the processes running, if you find the Archiver application process running then quit it, make sure that Archiver processes is not running.
Start finder to look for the Archiver name.
Searching "Archiver" vs "Contents"
Delete all files and folders related to the Archiver app.
A reboot might be necessary to completely remove some apps.