CAN NOT DELETE GHOST FILES

The one indispensible feature of Finder is in its View menu, as Show Path Bar. When you search as you have shown in Finder, you just get an array of icons with little visual cue of their actual filesystem location. With Show Path Bar, you click on any icon, and along the bottom of the Finder window is the path to the particular file.

Any application that is installed from a .pkg/.mpkg file is going to spray its contents beyond the Applications folder, and can install library frameworks and kernel drivers in System locations (and your local Library) to make life, and removal more complicated. An application that originates from a .dmg and simply depicts dragging the application across to a symbolic Applications folder usually installs entirely in /Applications.

In addition I will insist on advising the use of TrashMehttps://www.jibapps.com/apps/trashme/ for uninstalling all apps on macOS (waiting since decades that, it, itself, be at last able to do that properly). I personally use this app — regularly updated — since 2011 with never any problem, for whom it may concern.

I know that is perfectly useless and that tons of furious posts from "experts" will soon totally bury this thread with the usuals "it's dangerous, never do that, just put the app in the trashbin, etc." but this is the only way to prevent these disk space hogs to stay for decades on your Macs, being regularly "updated" to your new disk, them too, with all your other files, when you import a Time Machine backup to your (brand new) Mac during a (brand new) OS install.

PS: Note that even this will be of no help for you if you have previously sent the main app to the Trash following obediently the 'guidelines'.

Regards.

Hi,

File permissions? Try to give you all rights (bottom of Get Info window) before attempting to delete your file.

Regards.

You mean that when you click on the padlock and enter your admin password, it still lets you only this option?