Saturday 14 May 2016

Uninstall Tunnelblick for Mac OS X

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

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

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

Tunnelblick Bundles – The Application Bundle

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

Using Finder the remove the Tunnelblick Application Bundles & Additional Files

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

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

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Follow these steps to remove Tunnelblick 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 Tunnelblick app from you Mac.


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  2. In short, you should remove the app to Trash, then find and delete its leftovers. Usually, they are stored in the following locations:
    ~/Library/Application Support/…
    ~/Library/Logs/…
    ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Extensions/…
    You can learn more about Tunnelblick uninstalling in this guide - hhttps://nektony.com/how-to/uninstall-tunnelblick-on-mac

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