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

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

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

Guidance Bundles – The Application Bundle

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

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

Using Finder the remove the Guidance Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall Guidance & all associated files

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