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

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

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

Spectacle Bundles – The Application Bundle

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

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Using Finder the remove the Spectacle Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall Spectacle & all associated files

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