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

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

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

Tinderbox Bundles – The Application Bundle

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

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

Using Finder the remove the Tinderbox Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall Tinderbox & all associated files

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