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

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

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

EndNote Bundles – The Application Bundle

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

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Using Finder the remove the EndNote Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall EndNote & all associated files

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