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

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

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

Yoink Bundles – The Application Bundle

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

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Using Finder the remove the Yoink Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall Yoink & all associated files

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