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

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

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

Packages Bundles – The Application Bundle

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

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Using Finder the remove the Packages Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall Packages & all associated files

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