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

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

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

Growl Bundles – The Application Bundle

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

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Using Finder the remove the Growl Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall Growl & all associated files

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