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

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

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

Byword Bundles – The Application Bundle

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

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Using Finder the remove the Byword Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall Byword & all associated files

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