Uninstall SketchUp Pro Application in Mac OS X – SketchUp Pro removal steps from Mac OS X

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

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

SketchUp Pro Bundles – The Application Bundle

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

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

Using Finder the remove the SketchUp Pro Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall SketchUp Pro & all associated files

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