How to uninstall a DMG application

My question is just what it says. How do you uninstall a DMG application?

Please don't say "Just drag it to the trash" because that's not uninstallation.


I installed Adobe Reader and found it was slower than Preview, so I was looking for a way to uninstall it.

I did drag it to the trash and had it gotten rid of, but there are traces of the program on my Mac and I'm not happy with it.


Any ideas?

Some people suggeted that I use APPCLEANER but obviously others think it's crap, and I wouldn't trust a third-party app to find out another app's system files and delete them properly.


And please don't say "You don't need to get rid of those because it does you no harm," because I want them removed.

MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)

Posted on Jun 6, 2013 6:33 PM

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Jun 6, 2013 6:54 PM in response to BossaGroove

Some people suggeted that I use APPCLEANER but obviously others think it's crap, and I wouldn't trust a third-party app to find out another app's system files and delete them properly.

Well that would be your loss because I use a number of 3rd party apps to delete other apps and they work fine. You already know about AppCleaner, which is free. There are also two paid apps; AppZapper, that makes a cool zap sound when it deletes the files you allow. And there is AppDelete.


Or you can go on a hunt for files yourself with the free app FindAnyFile.


But of course the best is the other suggestion here, to use an uninstall program if the developer provides one.

Jun 6, 2013 6:38 PM in response to BossaGroove

A DMG file is a mac os x compressed file usually containing other files and usually a program/App. A DMG is basically the same as a windows ISO file.

So the way you get rid of a DMG file it to place it in the trash.


What you want to do is unstall the program that was contained in that DMG. I suggest you head over to adobe and search for "Uninstall acrobat reader from a mac". They should have instructions.

Or google that same thing.

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