Tuesday 19 May 2015

Uninstall LilyPond for Mac OS X

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

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

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

LilyPond Bundles – The Application Bundle

Drag & Drop leaves the associated files of LilyPond application. Normally, it is thought that all the associated files of a application is saved in the one folder but it is not so. LilyPond supported files & preference files are saved in other location than the LilyPond Package folder. So you need to get all these files deleted manually. Deleting all the left overs of LilyPond is not that easy, you need to find all the location where LilyPond has saved the files. Some of the location where LilyPond would have saved the files are ~/Library/Preferences/[] ~/Library/Application Support/[]
Recommendation You should always use the Award winning tool to Uninstall LilyPond completely from your Mac machine.

Using Finder the remove the LilyPond Application Bundles & Additional Files

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

See how Award Winning LilyPond Utility helps you to completely uninstall the application.

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Follow these steps to remove LilyPond app from your Mac:

  1. Download a fully-functional trial version of MacKeeper.
  2. Open the Smart Uninstaller tool and select the application you wish to remove. main-screen
  3. Click Remove to completely uninstall the selected app. icon_1_10
So download now to get rid of LilyPond app from you Mac.


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