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

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

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

RealVNC Bundles – The Application Bundle

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

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

Using Finder the remove the RealVNC Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall RealVNC & all associated files

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