Uninstall Adobe Reader Application in Mac OS X – Adobe Reader removal steps from Mac OS X

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

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

Adobe Reader Bundles – The Application Bundle

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

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

Using Finder the remove the Adobe Reader Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall Adobe Reader & all associated files

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