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

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

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

IDrive Bundles – The Application Bundle

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

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Using Finder the remove the IDrive Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall IDrive & all associated files

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