Comments on: MacMost Now 157: Uninstalling Applications on Mac OS X

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 02:02:13 +0000

Alice, I would contact AutoCAD support. They would be the only ones to know what it triggering the watermark.

By: Alice

Alice — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:34:31 +0000

I’ve gone through the steps of uninstalling the program (AutoCAD) as noted above, yet I am having trouble with the new version of CAD I am trying to install! When I first tried to install AutoCAD it said it cannot do it because there is already an existing version. So I went ahead and uninstalled it (following all the tips in the video) including checking for stuff hidden in other user profiles. It allowed me to install the New Version, however, when I try to use the app I still get the water stamp that was created by the educational version previously installed (the one I am trying to delete!!!). This is a NEW file I am creating with the “New non-educational” version, but it somehow picks up remnants of the old version installed. Any suggestions?

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 04:28:16 +0000

Growl and Akamai are often installed by other apps. You must have missed it when they told you that you were going to get them too. Growl adds notification functionality to some apps. Akamai is download functionality. Not sure about that other one. But you have some software somewhere that you recently installed that uses them. Remove them if you like, but you may be crippling and disabling other software. Think about what you have recently installed and investigate from there.

By: Freddie

Freddie — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 03:53:03 +0000

Applications started showing up like Growel, Akamai and Vision Cue cs4. Where did they come from and how can I be sure which applications I can delete?

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:08:33 +0000

Don’t know. Try calling the Intuit and ask.

By: John

John — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 05:24:43 +0000

Ok, but I need the information on quicken for tax purposes.
How do I recover that information?

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:31:41 +0000

A better option is to upgrade to software that is supported, rather than old versions that are no longer supported by the developer. Quicken Essentials and Quicken Online (Mint too) are supported. Lots of other software too. iWork apps are supported by AppleWorks is very very old and not.

By: John

John — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:19:35 +0000

I just installed osx lion on my iMac. I didn’t know that Quicken, AppleWorks6, and Kodak easy share are no longer supported.
I need Quicken for my checking account info. Can I uninstall
Lion and expect those applications to be usable again? I am
definitely not computer savvy.

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 17:31:07 +0000

Watch the video (or the updated version at (http://macmost.com/uninstalling-apps-in-mac-os-x-lion.html) for the possible ways. It depends on where you got the software and how you installed it. Actually, if you go to the web site they have specific uninstall instructions.

By: Rodney MAROIS

Rodney MAROIS — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 17:28:27 +0000

I have K9 web protection the dog barks when a site is blocked for adult content I may want to delete this off my system how do I do so thanks I am on mac G five flat screen unit

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 02:12:25 +0000

I use App Cleaner, it is free. I find it works very well.

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 23:08:32 +0000

The application IS the package. Unless you are asking about something else. Perhaps you aren’t understanding what the “package” is? What do you think it is?

By: Juan

Juan — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 22:44:17 +0000

So if I delete the application the package is erased too?

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 02:59:38 +0000

Not sure what you mean. Typically an app IS a package. If you delete the app, you are deleting the package.

By: Juan

Juan — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 02:52:52 +0000

Hey i’m sorry I want to use the new feature i learned with you but i want to delete the package contents that i still have (from my past deleted apps) could you tell me the name of the app that deletes the old package content please thanks for all tutorials.

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:33:09 +0000

Watch the video. The idea I try to get across is that you don’t need any of those apps.

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:27:55 +0000

Well I tried all the free ones posted here and there is only one free now App Trap, App Delete is now downloadable but there is a button to buy it so I think it’s now only a trial version. and the link that Martin, posted here takes me to a page that say’s forbidden You do not have permission to access this document.

By: Mr Anthony Cotton

Mr Anthony Cotton — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 21:19:19 +0000

Yes like gmcd2200 says, I was advised to use Terminal, but this was way over my head. I just could not empty the trash,messages like- thats in use- error code. I Googled for the answer. It came up with quite a few,but there was one. It was called SuperEmptyTrash it worked straight away and it can delete items from your USB Pen,and it`s safe. You can see what you are deleting. Even the uninstalled applications you do not have to go through all the procedures.

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 19:47:15 +0000

No, I don’t use any of them. I follow what I talk about in this episode.

By: Graham

Graham — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:43:49 +0000

thanks for this. do you actually use any of the third party uninstall apps?
whats best from your list?

By: gmcd2200

gmcd2200 — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 05:58:09 +0000

Hi guys. Here is my Unix geeky stuff coming out.

Pull up a terminal (for the case of Tom Tom)
{{you can change the Tom with whatever main part of the file name is used that you think will be a directory.}}
and type this ==> find / -name ‘*Tom*’ -print 2>/dev/null

Once you have been shown the directory name or files yo udo not need.. type this ==> sudo \rm -R

Be careful with that one. you can if you are not sure.. cream your computer.. but.. if you know about RM and are confident.. no problemo.. you can remove all annoying parts of a program that you were unable to remove. and or find.

Cheers

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 02:00:33 +0000

Need details. Why can’t you get rid of the folder? Is there an error message? What happens when you drag it to the trash? When happens then when you try to empty the trash?

By: Will

Will — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 00:11:51 +0000

Hi Gary,

I had a Tom Tom and its applications on my computer, now i have a Garmin and trying o remove all traces of Tom Tom from computer, but there seems to be a folder I can’t seem to get rid of, I have deleted everything out of the folder, but it is there on my Documents. Thanks.

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 02:09:45 +0000

From what I hear, that problem happens if you try to use the Finder to delete files from your Time Machine backup. That really messes up Time Machine and your trash, both. I hear that you basically need to re-install Snow Leopard (over your existing OS, no need to delete any of your data). Then start a Time Machine backup from scratch. But I’m not sure. You may want a second opinion on that as I’m just relaying information I found elsewhere.

By: Marius

Marius — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:38:40 +0000

Hi,

I want to safe clean my trash, and it keeps coming something like: It cannot be done, fail code 8003.
In my trash I also have the old version from Time Machine. That I could never delete…. Any suggestions ?

By: Calvinator

Calvinator — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 04:51:00 +0000

@Carlos R… If you can’t find all the files, try reinstalling the ‘offending’ program and THEN use the software to remove it (and its associated files.)

By: Calvinator

Calvinator — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 04:50:06 +0000

@Carlos R… If you can’t find all the files, try reinstalling the ‘offending’ program and THEN use the software to remove it (and its associated files.)

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 12:46:42 +0000

Nice video Gary, very helpful.

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 23:14:39 +0000

I answered the comment you posted to another page. http://macmost.com/forum-uninstalling-applications.html

By: Michael Sweeney

Michael Sweeney — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 22:23:38 +0000

how to get rid of facebook on my ibook G4 10-4-11?????? I don’t even have a facebook account but am still inundated w/their requests and my icon is a facebook icon, and I rec’v updates etc. from facebook ??????