Wednesday 28 January 2015

Uninstall Sparkle for Mac OS X

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

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

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

Sparkle Bundles – The Application Bundle

Drag & Drop leaves the associated files of Sparkle application. Normally, it is thought that all the associated files of a application is saved in the one folder but it is not so. Sparkle supported files & preference files are saved in other location than the Sparkle Package folder. So you need to get all these files deleted manually. Deleting all the left overs of Sparkle is not that easy, you need to find all the location where Sparkle has saved the files. Some of the location where Sparkle would have saved the files are ~/Library/Preferences/[] ~/Library/Application Support/[]
Recommendation You should always use the Award winning tool to Uninstall Sparkle completely from your Mac machine.

Using Finder the remove the Sparkle Application Bundles & Additional Files

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

See how Award Winning Sparkle Utility helps you to completely uninstall the application.

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Follow these steps to remove Sparkle app from your Mac:

  1. Download a fully-functional trial version of MacKeeper.
  2. Open the Smart Uninstaller tool and select the application you wish to remove. main-screen
  3. Click Remove to completely uninstall the selected app. icon_1_10
So download now to get rid of Sparkle app from you Mac.


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