uninstall worries!

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macaustria

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Quite new to mac !
I always have a bad feeling when I just pull an old program into the waste basket. Is this really ok and doesnt it leave old files hanging about in the system ?
What is the best (and easy) software to keep os x clean and smooth.
Thanks! :cool:
 
Welcome to the Mac!
Yes, it's almost always 'really OK' to just dump an application in the trash, and empty the trash. Most applications on the Mac do not have uninstallers. There's no registry, and usually not huge amounts of files installed in hidden places that you need to worry about. This is not Windows, you know! :) You CAN look in your user/Library/Preferences folder for files that have the name of your application as part of the file name, such as 'com.appname.plist' or something like that. These files could simply be put in the trash, or left in place. They are usually quite small and can safely be ignored.
 
run a search/find on your disk with the name of the program you're throwing out you will probably find some prefs to get rid off, also if the program has a read me file often if explains what files ends up where.

anyway what's left is probably neither big nor has an influence on smoothness.
 
Happy to know you can relax now and

Welcome to the "worry free" global village of apple ;)
 
If the app used an installer there could be files in /Library/Application Support or in ~/Library/Application Support

Sometimes there can be stuff in ~/Library/Application Support even if there was no installer used.
 
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