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

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

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

Artifact Bundles – The Application Bundle

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

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Using Finder the remove the Artifact Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall Artifact & all associated files

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