To delete an app, check its box and click the Go button the result will be just as if you’d dragged that application onto AppZapper. (The last bit of information is based on the application’s “Last opened” date, which can be viewed via the Finder’s Get Info window.) You can sort this list by name or last used, and you can search the list by application name. If you’d like to clean house, so to speak, AppZapper’s ZapGenie feature lists all applications on your hard drive-at least, by default, all those in the /Applications directory on your boot volume-along with each application’s location, its version number, and how long it’s been since you last used it. There are also options to keep all of OS X’s default applications safe, as well as to keep currently-running applications from being removed. To avoid zapping important applications and their support files, you can drag them into AppZapper’s “safe” list. So in such cases I recommend using the software package’s own uninstall/remove feature or utility. And it’s also worth nothing that a consequence of being safe here is that, when zapping such applications, AppZapper may not always delete everything associated with the app.
However, that doesn’t mean it can’t happen. AppZapper seems to handle this fairly well by erring on the safe side: I dragged individual apps from a number of popular software packages onto AppZapper, and didn’t find any instances of shared resources being deleted. For example, support files for one application in a suite of apps may also be used by other applications in that suite. I should add a word of warning here-one that applies to any “uninstall” utility: Be careful with applications that share resources and/or are part of larger software packages, as you may accidentally delete files that are needed by other applications. Still, a similar utility,ĬleanApp, can archive “uninstalled” files just in case you make a mistake and need to reinstall later I’d like to see such functionality added to AppZapper.) So there’s little chance you’ll accidentally delete personal data the closest thing would be application preferences. (One bit of information not included here that I’d like to see is the application’s version number.)Ĭlick the Zap button and all checked files are moved to the Trash (accompanied by a somewhat startling “zap” sound-consider yourself warned) if you want to keep a particular file or folder for any reason-for example, in case you ever decide to reinstall the application-uncheck the item before “zapping.” (You’ll notice that no documents are deleted, or even made available for deletion, by AppZapper. You also see the size of each file or folder, and you can view any item in the Finder by clicking the magnifying-glass icon next to it in AppZapper’s list. In the example above, I dropped the Camino Web browser icon onto AppZapper AppZapper showed me how much space Camino and its related files were using on my hard drive and then displayed those items: Camino itself, Camino’s folder of support files in the Application Support folder, Camino’s preferences file in ~/Library/Preferences, and Camino’s folder of cache files in ~/Library/Caches.
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