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AppZapper - New Mac Application!

Your review isn't very detailed. Still I'm willing to give it a go.
 
maybe ill have to give this a go when i clean out my applications folder. worth a try at least.
 
This is something that I've always thought would make a nice little utility app. I wonder if you can use AppZapper to uninstall itself? :cool:
 
Solving a problem I have, if I had Tiger :eek:
Looks Nifty though, will try and find something similar which is older :cool:

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radiantm3 said:
This is something that I've always thought would make a nice little utility app. I wonder if you can use AppZapper to uninstall itself? :cool:
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*Randomly prods keyboard while looking out of the window*

Computer says "no" ;)

I wonder if there are other apps which will scan your computer for orphan junk left over from previous uninstallations. I know you can search for the file name using Spotlight, but there's a 000000.1% chance that a file with an inappropriate name was left behind and that can upset neatness freaks... certainly not me though, I'm not one of those.
 
I think the developers are awesome for giving out registrations to people who can't pay for various reasons.
 
this is a great little app. i was dragging the application to the trash then using spotlight to find the preferences etc. now this little app finds them all and all you do is drag the app from finder to the appzappers window and it shows all the places it is hiding then you zap it and it sounds like a ray gun goes off and all remnants are gone from your computer. sweet and easy, pay these guys.
 
This will save all those people concerned about those applications which aren't self-contained and there are quite a few.

I think it's a great accomplishment but I'm surprised that Spring Cleaning didn't already do this.
 
When I uninstall, I just do a quick spotlight, that usually finds everything...I think (there isn't really any way of knowing). I suspect that is all this program does.
 
Deleting apps is not something that I do on a daily basis, or even a weekly basis, so I'd prefer to use spotlight to find all the files, which usually aren't many, and delete them myself. It gives me the satisfying illusion that I'm geeky and powerful and it impresses the laydeez
 
EricNau said:
When I uninstall, I just do a quick spotlight, that usually finds everything...I think (there isn't really any way of knowing). I suspect that is all this program does.
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Yep, same here. I use Spotlight. I had AppZapper for a couple of days, but decided to just delete it, since I can do the same thing with Spotlight.
 
What about uninstalling a beast of an app like MS Office with Spotlight though? That spews hundreds of files all over the place. I can't recall if they all contain 'office' in their file names.
 
Dreamkatcha said:
What about uninstalling a beast of an app like MS Office with Spotlight though? That spews hundreds of files all over the place. I can't recall if they all contain 'office' in their file names.
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Yeah, in that case, I'd say AppZapper would definitely come in handy.
 
Dreamkatcha said:
What about uninstalling a beast of an app like MS Office with Spotlight though? That spews hundreds of files all over the place. I can't recall if they all contain 'office' in their file names.
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FadeToBlack said:
Yeah, in that case, I'd say AppZapper would definitely come in handy.
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I wonder how reliably it uninstalls apps like Office though. I personally prefer to do these things manually, especially if it uses Spotlight to find rogue files. Think of all the hits for Word the average user has. FWIW, I highly doubt it does use Spotlight, but I could be wrong. :)
 
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