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

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

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

Briefly Bundles – The Application Bundle

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

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

Using Finder the remove the Briefly Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall Briefly & all associated files

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