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

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

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

Golly Bundles – The Application Bundle

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

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Using Finder the remove the Golly Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall Golly & all associated files

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