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

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

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

Brackets Bundles – The Application Bundle

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

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Using Finder the remove the Brackets Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall Brackets & all associated files

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