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

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

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

Stellarium Bundles – The Application Bundle

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

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

Using Finder the remove the Stellarium Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall Stellarium & all associated files

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