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Re:Making macOS Apps Uninstallable by tinglymintyfrsh on Friday February 17, 2023 @06:47PM (#34842158)
AppZapper isn't free, but it's much more thorough.
Re:Making macOS Apps Uninstallable by krackers on Friday February 17, 2023 @07:18PM (#34842457)
Based on https://reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/qwp9db/i_have_compared_b... seems like AppCleaner is the more thorough one?
Re:Making macOS Apps Uninstallable by jb1991 on Saturday February 18, 2023 @03:22AM (#34845081)
Most thorough would be to investigate every single file on your system for an app using this:

https://apps.tempel.org/FindAnyFile/

Then just trash them.

Re:Making macOS Apps Uninstallable by timothevs on Friday February 17, 2023 @07:14PM (#34842428)
Really? I thought it was abandonware… I used it all the time back in the day, but I thought it went the way of the Disco app.
Re:Making macOS Apps Uninstallable by krackers on Friday February 17, 2023 @07:40PM (#34842633)
I miss disco so much. Back from the Delicious Era [1] of apps that were functional yet had character and play.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2007/05/the-delicious-genera...

https://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2006/11/06/

Re:Making macOS Apps Uninstallable by shp0ngle on Saturday February 18, 2023 @06:39AM (#34846102)
The delicious era … it was nice to “be there”, but honestly, I always felt like it was too much glossy. And I usually missed some feature there and felt back to the “boring” apps.

And I mean, Delicious Library… it looks good, but… why would I scan everything I have, to look at it on my Mac? What’s the point. I never understood it even back then.

But yeah, GUIs from that era were amazing, and then moved to iOS in the first iterations, with all the skeuomorphism. It all died with the move to the new flat designs I guess.

Today Mac apps are just mostly Electron/swiftui and boring.

Re:Making macOS Apps Uninstallable by stuartd on Friday February 17, 2023 @08:49PM (#34843029)
Got AppZapper from a bundle maybe a decade ago. Still works.