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

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

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

Pixen Bundles – The Application Bundle

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

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Using Finder the remove the Pixen Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall Pixen & all associated files

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