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Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / January 2005How to uninstall programs on a Mac...
Greetings all... Longtime windows user here, mac noob... I just inherited my friends old G3 (I'm a fiend for older gear), and still adjusting to the switch from windows platform to MacOSX. My question is there a procedure that you need to do to uninstall a program? In windows, good programs have an uninstaller executable, that removes registry entries, ddl's, services, and files. Do Mac applications follow a same format? What I am doing right now is just dragging all the files into the garbage bin, but being a windows user for so long, i still feel as though there are files left over from the program... Show me the way... Blessings... Joe > Greetings all... > > Longtime windows user here, mac noob... Welcome. Most of us are friendly, the couple who aren't will make themselves obvious soon enough and can be safely ignored. > My > question is there a procedure that you need to do to uninstall a [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > for so long, i still feel as though there are files left over from the > program... Nope, that's all you need to do; no overcomplications. It took me a while to get used to it too, but I found that if I'm working too hard to figure out how to do something, I'm overcomplicating it. > Show me the way... You found it. Want something printed? Drag it to your printer icon...that sort of thing. You'll have more questions, this is the perfect place to ask 'em. Welcome, Dave Hinz >>Greetings all... >> [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > Welcome, > Dave Hinz Right on Dave... You the man... J uninstall on os9 or osx normally is fairly easy as most major install programs also have an uninstall program. for the simple programs in os9 usually just throwing the app in the trash and looking in preferences for a pref file to throw out as well and occasionally an extension in the extensions folder. under osx it can get trickier if there is no uninstall. jimt > Greetings all... > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Joe > Greetings all... > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > for so long, i still feel as though there are files left over from the > program... For the vast majority of programs, what you're doing is exactly right. If you're really concerned about it, you might want to look in ~/Library/Preferences and /Library/Preferences for settings. There are a smaller number of programs that will store things in directories called "Application Support" that are peers to the Preferences directories. But for the most part, Mac apps are installed by dragging them where you want them from the distribution media, and removed by dragging them to the trash. G  SignatureStandard output is like your butt. Everyone has one. When using a bathroom, they all default to going into a toilet. However, a person can redirect his "standard output" to somewhere else, if he so chooses. - Jeremy Nixon > Greetings all... > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Joe One way to delete a program is to do a search for it using the finder. Type in the name of the program, select the location you want searched if you have more than one drive and select for visible and invisible files. When the search is done, simply trash the files that are associated with the application. SR1 Just my additional $0.02: The MS Office Test Drive contains a "Remove Office 2004" uninstaller located in the MS Office directory. The readme.html file asks you to unstall any test drive versions before installing a full version. > Greetings all... > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > applications follow a same format? What I am doing right now is just > dragging all the files into the garbage bin, but being a windows user > for so long, i still feel as though there are files left over from the > program... [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Joe |
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