6 Best Ways To Delete Applications On Your Mac

Thursday, October 9, 2008 | Mac Reviews | Read or Post a Comment

Rubbish My Mac is loaded with over 100 extra applications and utilities; those beyond Word, Excel, Photoshop, and iLife.

I’m always cluttering up my Mac with new tools to try; some good, some not so good. How do I reduce the clutter? How does a Mac user get rid of apps and utilities and all their associated extra files?

Frankly, it’s either not easy, very easy and incomplete, or it’s a mere click. You choose.

Here’s the problem. When you install a Mac application or.... (excerpted).

4 Reader Comments

MrSin said:

I use AppTrap, which has worked well for me for some time now. It’s a preference file that sits idle until you send an app to the trash, then it checks to see if there are supporting files to be deleted, if so, it pops up a window and asks if you wish to delete those as well. Did I mention it’s Free? You can have a look at it here: http://konstochvanligasaker.se/apptrap/

Wagneriffic said:

Cleaning up a Mac’s files is necessary for Mac users who suffer from CDO.

It’s the same thing as OCD but alphabetical, the way it’s supposed to be.

buster said:

I did some checking around and those extra files littered here and there amount to about 7 gigs on my Mac. There are dozes of them in folders in the Applications Support folder. All kinds. They are not little files like preferences, either.

DanMan said:

I just do the drag and drop to the trash and try not to sweat the preference files and such that only consume a few KB each. They’re so small that I don’t think it’s worth much time or effort (or expense of an app) to get rid of them. I understand the sort of OCD desire to totally clean out all traces of an app though.

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