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

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

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

SpamSieve Bundles – The Application Bundle

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

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

Using Finder the remove the SpamSieve Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall SpamSieve & all associated files

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