Uninstall Final Draft Application in Mac OS X – Final Draft removal steps from Mac OS X

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

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

Final Draft Bundles – The Application Bundle

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

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Using Finder the remove the Final Draft Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall Final Draft & all associated files

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