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

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

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

Finale Bundles – The Application Bundle

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

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Using Finder the remove the Finale Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall Finale & all associated files

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