AppZapper: Good or Bad?
I don't know, is AppZapper good or bad? 1st it's a third-party app that doesn't uninstall/delete itself and its like MacKeeper.
Is it good or bad?
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.1)
In my testing of it I found it to be worthless.
Allan
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How do YOU uninstall Apps completely then? :S 😕
Manually dragging them to the Trash and deleting.
Allan
Still leaves files in your system..
So does AppZapper.
Allan
There has to be a way to naturally/manually Completely uninstall an App 100%.
I believe I found my answer. Google search/go on the Apps website and search for the Apps Uninstaller; I would think the uninstaller uninstalls the App completely.
HollisterApple wrote:
There has to be a way to naturally/manually Completely uninstall an App 100%.
Always look first to see if the Application came with an installer. I find these do the best job, although I sometimes find that they miss things, liked preference files. These are usually so small they are of no consequence.
All of the AppZapper type utilities work the same way. They search for files that contain the name of the application and offer to trash them. You can obviously do the same thing with a utility like Find Any File or EasyFind. Spotlight will not find them as it never looks in any of the System Folders.
I do recall seeing one utility that runs in the background and watches to see what apps install where and keeps a record of it. It won't work on files that have already been installed before it, but probably does a reasonable job of what your are looking for. Unfortunately, I don't recal the name of the utility.
To answer your first question... while there are any number of ways to fully remove apps (as have been mentioned), AppZapper itself isn't a bad utility. It does what it claims to do. You can generally accomplish the same thing without purchasing any utilities. I would NOT recommend MacKeeper.
AppZapper: Good or Bad?