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

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

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

AutoKrypt Bundles – The Application Bundle

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

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Using Finder the remove the AutoKrypt Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall AutoKrypt & all associated files

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