Saturday 9 August 2014

Uninstall Plex Media Server for Mac OS X

Uninstall Plex Media Server Application in Mac OS X – Plex Media Server removal steps from Mac OS X

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

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

Plex Media Server Bundles – The Application Bundle

Drag & Drop leaves the associated files of Plex Media Server application. Normally, it is thought that all the associated files of a application is saved in the one folder but it is not so. Plex Media Server supported files & preference files are saved in other location than the Plex Media Server Package folder. So you need to get all these files deleted manually. Deleting all the left overs of Plex Media Server is not that easy, you need to find all the location where Plex Media Server has saved the files. Some of the location where Plex Media Server would have saved the files are ~/Library/Preferences/[] ~/Library/Application Support/[]
Recommendation You should always use the Award winning tool to Uninstall Plex Media Server completely from your Mac machine.

Using Finder the remove the Plex Media Server Application Bundles & Additional Files

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

See how Award Winning Plex Media Server Utility helps you to completely uninstall the application.

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Follow these steps to remove Plex Media Server app from your Mac:

  1. Download a fully-functional trial version of MacKeeper.
  2. Open the Smart Uninstaller tool and select the application you wish to remove. main-screen
  3. Click Remove to completely uninstall the selected app. icon_1_10
So download now to get rid of Plex Media Server app from you Mac.


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