Completely remove applications in OSX

If like me you’ve ever moved from a PC to a Mac you are probably freaked out by uninstalling apps on the Mac e.g. just dragging the relevant app to the Trash from the /Applications directory. But what about all the DLLs and Registry entries? No such thing on Mac. True though that is, there’s still a bit of other related clutter that each application keeps somewhere else. Usually just small Preferences files and the likes but still, if something’s worth uninstalling then it’s worth uninstalling properly! In this case, AppTrap. comes to the rescue. It’s a small freeware app that pops up when you trash an application and prompts you whether you’d like to remove the app’s related preferences etc.

14th February 2009

Ben Childs

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