Re:Making macOS Apps Uninstallable
by tinglymintyfrsh on Friday February 17, 2023 @06:47PM
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AppZapper isn't free, but it's much more thorough.
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Based on https://reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/qwp9db/i_have_compared_b... seems like AppCleaner is the more thorough one?
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.
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.
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...
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.