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Deleting An Application

Does deleting an application by moving it to Trash delete ALL files on the Mac associated with that application?

iMac 27″ 5K, 10.15

Posted on Feb 19, 2022 1:07 PM

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Posted on Feb 19, 2022 4:56 PM

Moving it to the Trash is an acceptable way to delete an application from your Mac. However, doing so will leave behind prefs files and possibly some application support data; this is normally ok because after the application is Trashed they don't do anything other than take up a small bit of drive space.


As dialabrain indicated earlier, if the application has an Uninstaller, it's better to use that because the Uninstaller should remove everything associated with the app.

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Feb 19, 2022 4:56 PM in response to emily153

Moving it to the Trash is an acceptable way to delete an application from your Mac. However, doing so will leave behind prefs files and possibly some application support data; this is normally ok because after the application is Trashed they don't do anything other than take up a small bit of drive space.


As dialabrain indicated earlier, if the application has an Uninstaller, it's better to use that because the Uninstaller should remove everything associated with the app.

Deleting An Application

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