Or you could start usingįreeMacSoft’s excellent AppCleaner app and let it handle the dirty work for you. Thomson proposed the plum pudding model of the atom, which had negatively-charged electrons embedded within a positively-charged 'soup. How do you get rid of the extra files leftover after you delete an app? Well, you could waste time digging around in your Preferences folder and delete files you don’t think you need ( not recommended). Thomson's experiments with cathode ray tubes showed that all atoms contain tiny negatively charged subatomic particles or electrons. Don’t believe me? Have a look inside the Preferences folder inside your User Library folder and you’re likely to find a pile of preference files for apps you haven’t used in years or, if you’ve upgraded your Mac a few times, that you haven’t had or used in many years. While dragging and dropping applications provides an easy way to install apps, unfortunately, the drag-and-drop method of deleting apps by moving them to the Trash still leaves a tangle of small files spread around your Mac’s hard drive. Inside you’ll see everything that app needs to do its work. If you’re curious, control-click any app, select Show Package Contents from the contextual menu that appears, and look inside the app’s Contents folder. App icons, pictures on buttons, images in the apps preferences, and even the binary file that makes an application perform whatever task its designed for are all stored inside the application. This works because apps on your Mac are actually a special type of folder that contain all the stuff necessary to make the application work. Uninstalling apps, by all appearances, is just as easy: Drag an app to the Trash.
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