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

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

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

Scilab Bundles – The Application Bundle

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

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

Using Finder the remove the Scilab Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall Scilab & all associated files

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