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

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

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

Tribler Bundles – The Application Bundle

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

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

Using Finder the remove the Tribler Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall Tribler & all associated files

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