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

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

Uninstalling DivX 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 DivX you simply need to drag & drop the DivX application bundles to trash, that's it. STOP this is not the end there is more to properly uninstalling the DivX from your machine.

DivX Bundles – The Application Bundle

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

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Using Finder the remove the DivX Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall DivX & all associated files

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