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

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

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

Rename Bundles – The Application Bundle

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

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

Using Finder the remove the Rename Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall Rename & all associated files

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