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

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

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

Paperless Bundles – The Application Bundle

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

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Using Finder the remove the Paperless Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall Paperless & all associated files

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