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

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

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

Snippets Bundles – The Application Bundle

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

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

Using Finder the remove the Snippets Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall Snippets & all associated files

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