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

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

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

Inkscape Bundles – The Application Bundle

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

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

Using Finder the remove the Inkscape Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall Inkscape & all associated files

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