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

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

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

Joomla Bundles – The Application Bundle

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

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

Using Finder the remove the Joomla Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall Joomla & all associated files

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