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

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

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

PAID Bundles – The Application Bundle

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

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Using Finder the remove the PAID Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall PAID & all associated files

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