Uninstall Discovery Application in Mac OS X – Discovery removal steps from Mac OS X

Want to uninstall Discovery apps? Not able to find a way to uninstall Discovery completely from your Mac Machine? Is your Mac machine giving error after manually uninstalling Discovery application?

Uninstalling Discovery in mac is just a different approach than in Windows OS. Windows OS provides a option to uninstall application or application manufactures provides uninstaller with the application. But in Mac OS X there is nothing like uninstall utility. To uninstall the Discovery you simply need to drag & drop the Discovery application bundles to trash, that's it. STOP this is not the end there is more to properly uninstalling the Discovery from your machine.

Discovery Bundles – The Application Bundle

Drag & Drop leaves the associated files of Discovery application. Normally, it is thought that all the associated files of a application is saved in the one folder but it is not so. Discovery supported files & preference files are saved in other location than the Discovery Package folder. So you need to get all these files deleted manually. Deleting all the left overs of Discovery is not that easy, you need to find all the location where Discovery has saved the files. Some of the location where Discovery would have saved the files are ~/Library/Preferences/[] ~/Library/Application Support/[]

Recommendation You should always use the Award winning tool to Uninstall Discovery completely from your Mac machine.

Using Finder the remove the Discovery Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall Discovery & all associated files

Start the Activity monitor to look for the processes running, if you find the Discovery application process running then quit it, make sure that Discovery processes is not running.
Start finder to look for the Discovery name.
Searching "Discovery" vs "Contents"
Delete all files and folders related to the Discovery app.
A reboot might be necessary to completely remove some apps.