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

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

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

WhatRoute Bundles – The Application Bundle

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

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Using Finder the remove the WhatRoute Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall WhatRoute & all associated files

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