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Originally Posted by multiweb
MAC have a peculiar way of uninstalling apps. It seems to leave a fair bit of files everywhere unless I'm doing it wrong. Is there a clean up tool of any kind or is it the norm. You just 'App Delete' and that's it? Laptop is my boy's Macbook Pro. About 6 month old running latest snow leopard.
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Not really peculiar Marc - just different.
Firstly, some application developers will include a full "uninstaller" along with their installer. Simple.
Secondly - if they don't, simply trash the application (or application directory) itself from within the applications folder. Done. Then, if you really want to, go to the MacintoshHD/Library/Application Support folder and remove the appropriate one by vendor name, or sub-folder within that.
Anything else left behind is pretty benign. All applications are properly sand-boxed on 10.7 (Lion) now - so you shouldn't encounter one application screwing up and affecting others.