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

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

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

TextExpander Bundles – The Application Bundle

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

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

Using Finder the remove the TextExpander Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall TextExpander & all associated files

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