Which Application Remover Is Best For Mac?

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How to Remove an Application from Your Mac ‘Wait, so how do I Delete an App from my Mac?’ If you are reading up on this topic, it is safe to assume that you have asked yourself that question once or twice already. Removing apps on Mac is not a baffling task by any means. In fact, it is so straightforward that it is almost too good to be true. The only condition for you to meet to is that your account – the one you use to log in to your Mac – needs to have admin rights. Check whether you have the required rights by clicking on Apple Menu > System Preferences, and selecting Users & Groups, find your account on the left and make sure the box next to ‘Allow user to administer this computer’ is checked. You are good to go!

With that out of the way, here is how you remove apps from your Mac. Uninstalling Applications Downloaded Online Mac applications come in self-contained packages.

All app files are usually located within a single folder hidden behind a dedicated icon in the Applications folder on your Mac. Aoe 3 gamespot. If you are curious what is inside, then right-click (or control-click) the icon and hit ‘Show Package Contents’. In order to of your choice simply drag the icon/folder to Trash (or hit command + delete after selecting the app) and enter admin password. Empty Trash and the app is forever deleted off your system.

Removing Apps Downloaded from the App Store There is one more way to remove apps, which you have downloaded off App Store. To get rid of an app, open up Launchpad, then click-and-hold any app until all icons start jiggling. You will notice that some apps - the ones you installed from the App Store - have ‘X’ buttons in the top left corner. Hit the ‘X’ to remove the app. The Problem with Uninstalling Apps on Mac Leftover Application Files While removing apps takes almost no effort at all, it is important to know that in most cases you are not removing the entire app from your Mac. In reality, many files are getting left behind.

These files store user data, preferred settings, etc. In order to run the app just the way you wanted it in case you choose to reinstall it in the future. On one hand, such application fragments do not take up much space or harm your system (yet). On the other hand though, why would anyone want to keep something they are never going to use again? These remaining application files can be removed manually if you have extra time at hand, but are best delete using to save time and prevent unintenional mistakes. Deleting Built-in System Apps Uninstalling built-in applications that you do not use may seem very tempting at times, especially if you like to keep things tidy and on-point on your Apple computer.

However, it is altogether not worth it. Take the built-in Chess app for example. You may not be a chess person, so removing it may seem like a logical thing to do.

When attempting to delete the app you will run into a system message ‘Chess cannot be modified or deleted because it’s required by MacOS’. You may now be wondering – and you are not alone – ‘how in the world is Chess required by the system?’ All pre-installed apps are integrated in the system – they are called ‘built-in’ for a reason after all – and are interlinked with one another. Safari links with iTunes and App Store for example. Calendar and Mail apps have some kind of connection too. Regardless, system apps take hardly any space – the Chess app is only 8.7 Mb – which makes hardly any difference on modern drives.

If you are looking to delete something to get more space, consider removing GarageBand Sound Library (if you do not use it of course), which takes a ton of space. Apps that Do Not Play by the Rules Exceptions happen to almost all kinds of rules – some apps do not follow the usual (easy) pattern of uninstallation. For instance, security and anti-virus programs, device sync software, apps from Adobe and Microsoft may install components beyond their dedicated folder.