Uninstall FileMaker Pro Application in Mac OS X – FileMaker Pro removal steps from Mac OS X
Want to uninstall FileMaker Pro apps? Not able to find a way to uninstall FileMaker Pro completely from your Mac Machine? Is your Mac machine giving error after manually uninstalling FileMaker Pro application?
Uninstalling FileMaker Pro 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 FileMaker Pro you simply need to drag & drop the FileMaker Pro application bundles to trash, that's it.
STOP this is not the end there is more to properly uninstalling the FileMaker Pro from your machine.
FileMaker Pro Bundles – The Application Bundle
Drag & Drop leaves the associated files of FileMaker Pro application. Normally, it is thought that all the associated files of a application is saved in the one folder but it is not so. FileMaker Pro supported files & preference files are saved in other location than the FileMaker Pro Package folder. So you need to get all these files deleted manually. Deleting all the left overs of FileMaker Pro is not that easy, you need to find all the location where FileMaker Pro has saved the files.
Some of the location where FileMaker Pro would have saved the files are
~/Library/Preferences/[]
~/Library/Application Support/[]
Recommendation
You should always use the Award winning tool to Uninstall FileMaker Pro completely from your Mac machine.
Using Finder the remove the FileMaker Pro Application Bundles & Additional Files
To Manually uninstall FileMaker Pro & all associated files
- Start the Activity monitor to look for the processes running, if you find the FileMaker Pro application process running then quit it, make sure that FileMaker Pro processes is not running.
- Start finder to look for the FileMaker Pro name.
- Searching "FileMaker Pro" vs "Contents"
- Delete all files and folders related to the FileMaker Pro app.
- A reboot might be necessary to completely remove some apps.
See how Award Winning FileMaker Pro Utility helps you to completely uninstall the application.
Follow these steps to remove FileMaker Pro app from your Mac:
- Download a fully-functional trial version of MacKeeper.
- Open the Smart Uninstaller tool and select the application you wish to remove.
- Click Remove to completely uninstall the selected app.
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