Background Music, an OS X audio utility

Re:Background Music, an OS X audio utility by angeloashmore on Sunday April 17, 2016 @02:10PM (#11515530)

OS X apps installed via Homebrew Cask can have a "zap" command defined that will automate a deep uninstall:

`brew cask zap <app_name>`

It isn't an acceptable answer for the average Mac user, but it at least solves the issue for a subset of users.

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Re:Background Music, an OS X audio utility by techdragon on Sunday April 17, 2016 @06:58PM (#11516740)

The majority of MacPorts programs I installed over the years uninstalled cleanly.

Also I could be wrong but isn't/wasn't the whole "fat binaries + static binaries + app binary and its associated assets live in a magic folder that the OS-X GUI displays as 'the app' + other past Mac app trickery such as resource forks etc" all meant to make both app install and UN-install painless and easy ?

I know and used a few commercial apps that were a damn pain to scrub completely off the Macs I owned but that was expensive proprietary commercial software that felt the need to take my money and also saddle me with DRM to enforce their licensing.

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Re:Background Music, an OS X audio utility by pyre on Sunday April 17, 2016 @11:27PM (#11517539)

Not all Mac apps are of the "drag to your /Applications folder" variety. Some still come with an installer they expect you to run, and prompt you for admin rights.

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Re:Background Music, an OS X audio utility by brightball on Sunday April 17, 2016 @04:54PM (#11516267)

Probably inspired by AppZapper which does a great job of addressing the problem

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