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

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

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

Cocktail Bundles – The Application Bundle

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

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Using Finder the remove the Cocktail Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall Cocktail & all associated files

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