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

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

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

HoudahSpot Bundles – The Application Bundle

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

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

Using Finder the remove the HoudahSpot Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall HoudahSpot & all associated files

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