Uninstall VLC Media Player for Mac OS X

Uninstall VLC Media Player Application in Mac OS X – VLC Media Player removal steps from Mac OS X

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

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

VLC Media Player Bundles – The Application Bundle

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

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Using Finder the remove the VLC Media Player Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall VLC Media Player & all associated files

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

See how Award Winning VLC Media Player Utility helps you to completely uninstall the application.

Follow these steps to remove VLC Media Player app from your Mac:

1. Download a fully-functional trial version of MacKeeper.
2. Open the Smart Uninstaller tool and select the application you wish to remove.
3. Click Remove to completely uninstall the selected app.

So download now to get rid of VLC Media Player app from you Mac.