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How to COMPLETELY uninstall certain apps
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1555655"><p>All the posts have covered this topic pretty exhaustively, but I'll add that your reference to remembering Skype logins may be associated more with the Keychain than any incomplete uninstallation. You can open Keychain Access and delete the entry for Skype, if it bothers you. </p><p></p><p>And I don't see the plist issue as a design flaw. The application can name the plist whatever it wants to, so there is no way that OSX (or Appcleaner, for that matter) can absolutely KNOW what files are associated with the application. Appcleaner (and all the other uninstall helpers) make an educated guess at what it thinks are the associated files and then presents them to YOU so that it is YOUR responsibility for any damage done by deleting the wrong files. It gets it right most of the time, but you still have to understand that 1) there may be other files left behind and 2) the files it is deleting may or may not be the right ones.</p><p></p><p>Given the small size of the debris left behind, I don't bother with it. I doubt all of the leftovers add up to 1Mb total on my machine that I've been running since 2006.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1555655"] All the posts have covered this topic pretty exhaustively, but I'll add that your reference to remembering Skype logins may be associated more with the Keychain than any incomplete uninstallation. You can open Keychain Access and delete the entry for Skype, if it bothers you. And I don't see the plist issue as a design flaw. The application can name the plist whatever it wants to, so there is no way that OSX (or Appcleaner, for that matter) can absolutely KNOW what files are associated with the application. Appcleaner (and all the other uninstall helpers) make an educated guess at what it thinks are the associated files and then presents them to YOU so that it is YOUR responsibility for any damage done by deleting the wrong files. It gets it right most of the time, but you still have to understand that 1) there may be other files left behind and 2) the files it is deleting may or may not be the right ones. Given the small size of the debris left behind, I don't bother with it. I doubt all of the leftovers add up to 1Mb total on my machine that I've been running since 2006. [/QUOTE]
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