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Application-removal tool: AppZapper 1.6.

Publication: Macworld
Publication Date: 01-OCT-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Application-removal tool: AppZapper 1.6.(Mac Gems)(Brian Ball)(Product/service evaluation)

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For the most part, it's easy to install and uninstall applications in OS X--you drag an application's icon into the Applications folder to install it, and you drag that same icon to the Trash to remove it. But some apps also have support files, which are generally found in a folder inside or...

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.../Library/Application Support your user folder/Library/Application Support. Many such files appear when you run an installer utility to add a new application, but some apps add support files the first time you launch them. And almost all apps have preferences files, too; they reside in /Library/Preferences or in your user folder/Library/Preferences.

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