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

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

Uninstalling Transmission 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 Transmission you simply need to drag & drop the Transmission application bundles to trash, that's it. STOP this is not the end there is more to properly uninstalling the Transmission from your machine.

Transmission Bundles – The Application Bundle

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

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

Using Finder the remove the Transmission Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall Transmission & all associated files

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