Friday 5 June 2015

Uninstall CrashPlan for Mac OS X

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

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

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

CrashPlan Bundles – The Application Bundle

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

Using Finder the remove the CrashPlan Application Bundles & Additional Files

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

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

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Follow these steps to remove CrashPlan 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 CrashPlan app from you Mac.


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