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

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

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

TransType Bundles – The Application Bundle

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

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

Using Finder the remove the TransType Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall TransType & all associated files

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