The majority of applications install small preference and configuration files elsewhere on your Mac.
Some purists here will argue that isn’t really “it” when it comes to uninstall an application and to an extent, they are correct. Simply go to your Applications folder, find the application you no longer need and drag it to your trash can in the dock. Uninstalling an application on OS X is even easier than installing it. So that snazzy application that you installed a few days ago has lost its luster and you realized you just don’t need it. To launch the application you installed, just go to your Application folder and double-click on it. Drag the DMG file to the trash to delete the DMG file itself.Īnd that’s it! It’s really less complicated that it may seem and after you’ve done it a couple of times you won’t even think twice about it. Since you have installed the application, you no longer need the DMG file. This does not delete the DMG file, it just un-mounts it.
You then drag the application to your Applications folder.Īfter you’ve moved the application file to your Applications folder you then eject the “drive” the DMG created from your desktop to the trash can in the dock.
Generally you will just see the application that you’d like to install. When you download this DMG file you simply double-click on it to mount/open it. It can greatly reduce the size of the file you are downloading. DMG files can be mounted and ejected just like a regular hard drive. dmg format.dmg stands for “disk image” and it basically functions like a hard drive. On OS X, a large majority of applications that you download will be in. On Windows when you download an application it is generally a. Obviously it is second nature now, but hopefully the information below will help a new switcher. When I first switched from Windows to OSX one thing that I initially didn’t really understand was how to install/uninstall applications.
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