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Old April 1st, 2008, 10:26 PM
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Originally Posted by nemac View Post
Thank you for the reply. Coming from a WIndows environment I would be looking for an "Un-Install" method.
What eric2006 said is true. It's always been customary in the Mac world that removing an application was as simple as dragging the application to the Trash and emptying it. As a matter of fact, this is the way most Macintosh apps are dealt with today, especially since installing the application is as simple as dragging it from the mounted disk image that it downloaded to the Applications folder on the system hard drive.

As I mentioned, sometimes there is a particular software package that employs the use of Installer.app or their own preferred installer, but most of the time there's either a binary that performs an uninstallation or the installer itself has the option to remove the software package when launched. Again, this is the exception and not the rule. The usual rule is to drag the application from the mounted disk image file on the desktop to the Applications folder when installing, and dragging the application from the Applications folder to the Trash when uninstalling.
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