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

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

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

Printopia Bundles – The Application Bundle

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

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Using Finder the remove the Printopia Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall Printopia & all associated files

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