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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brown Study" data-source="post: 371059" data-attributes="member: 3889">If you right-click an application icon and choose "Show Package Contents," you'll see the icon is nothing more than a folder full of program. So most of the app would disappear if you trash it. If you drag it to another folder, the pathway might screw up any updates that look for it in the Applications folder. There are a few other files that would be left kicking around if you trash it, such as text files consisting of its preferences — the app's defaults or changes you made to them.You can find these files by running a search using the app's name and trashing them. There's at least one app-removal program, AppZapper, that claims to find these. But why pay for that when it's nothing more than a stripped-down search program?Some very complicated apps that use double-click intallers might have uninstallers, as well.</blockquote>