Uninstall Tidy Up Application in Mac OS X – Tidy Up removal steps from Mac OS X

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

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

Tidy Up Bundles – The Application Bundle

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

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

Using Finder the remove the Tidy Up Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall Tidy Up & all associated files

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