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

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

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

SonicWeb Bundles – The Application Bundle

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

Recommendation You should always use the Award winning tool to Uninstall SonicWeb completely from your Mac machine.

Using Finder the remove the SonicWeb Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall SonicWeb & all associated files

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