Appzapper vs appcleaner4/10/2023 I suppose I could have achieved the same end result by "putting back" from the Trash. I did manage to recover the vault by restoring 1Password3 from a Time Machine backup (after removing it using AppCleaner). In my experience, 1Password3 lingered and I honestly don't remember the disposition of any interim versions of 1Password. In this case, a complete application removal was unwise but not always readily apparent. In the past I rarely used it before I learned that I can use Activity Monitor to quit running processes. In my experience that setting prevents the app and its supporting components from being deleted. I could be wrong, as I'm not entirely sure what "Protect Running Apps" means or if that box is checked by default. I'm assuming that might mean if an app is running, it's components have an enqueue(?) marking them as being "in-use" and won't be deleted. Does the old version hang around after the upgrade?ĪppCleaner does have a Preference to "Protect Running Apps". It's been a while since I upgraded to 1Password 7. It's one of those things we generally learn from experience like your unfortunate D'OH! That way its support data files won't also be deleted. If I want to delete a previous version of an app while using a current version, I simply drag the old version to the Trash. Software upgrades typically safeguard against this from happening but that's up to the developer and how new versions are implemented. If memory serves me, after deleting 1Password3, the current vault used by 1Password6 was deleted. However, on one such occasion, I recall removing a previous version of 1Password and it rendered a subsequent version of the same application inoperable. I've relied on AppCleaner in the past and give it high marks. Considering all of the myriad apps that I have deleted before and since that thorough Spring house cleaning, I have not run into any associated problems when using AppCleaner. (Maybe someone will come along who knows more than we do.)Īn important caveat: Some apps share certain support files (Adobe software comes to mind.) so it is a good idea to scan the list of selected files before deleting everything.įWIW, a while back I did a serious cleaning of my main Mac of apps I no longer use/never wound up using much or at all. Manually finding and deleting the files is the only way. Unfortunately, if there is an easy way to find orphaned support files after deleting an app, neither I nor the video producer know about it. AppCleaner did a much better job at finding everything than the other apps I tested.ĪppCleaner is "donationware" and if you like the ease and reliability of using the software, I suggest sending the developer Julien Ramseier an amount of $ that you consider appropriate like I did. around 5 of them if I remember correctly. I've used AppCleaner for a few years now after I did a comparison of all the Mac app deletion utilities that I could find. The video also recommends the free utility AppCleaner which does a comparable job with drag-and-drop simplicity. 67 years old and a Mac user since 1995 and apparently this Old Dog still has some new tricks to learn! It turns out that I had no idea that I can use the OS search function to relatively quickly and easily locate every support file that are scattered in various Library folders. Then YouTube suggested that I check out How To Delete Apps on Mac - The Correct Way in 2022. This afternoon I was on YouTube looking for videos about using the key mapper utility Karabiner (I found two that look promising).
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