Uninstalling Adobe AIR-based Applications from Mac OSX
I’ve been playing around with Adobe AIR based apps onOSX for almost 3 months now and I must say that I see nothing but tons of potential for the new runtime environment.
The cross-OS platform uses HTML, Flash and AJAX among others to make highly-functional Rich Internet Applications and deploy them as desktop clients.
Currently, my favorite AIR apps include Snitter, an AIR-based Twitter client for Mac OSX; Airpress, a Wordpress compatible blogging client; and of course, Pownce’s desktop client.
However, AIR being a relatively new runtime environment, applications tend to be buggy and I find myself installing and trying to uninstall apps a lot.
Usually, to make sure that I delete all files associated with the app I am trying to uninstall, I use either App Zapper or App Delete.
The process is pretty straightforward. I go to my applications folder and drag the program I wish to uninstall to App Delete or App Zapper and that’s that.
I’ve been trying out a lot of Adobe AIR-based apps in the last couple of months and until lately, I haven’t found a way to uninstall them as they do not appear in the applications folder.
What I found out was the AIR installer and apps are, by default, installed in your Home/Applications folder rather than your root Applications folder. So for a user named TedGrubb, AIR-based apps are installed in /TedGrubb/Applications rather than in /Applications.
adobe air for the mac is one of the most painstaking apps to run. i dont use it anymore!
OMG, you’re having a problem with a Mac?! Que horror!!!!
ya but at least the problems are sexy problems!!!!
not like viruses and hanging… lolz
I’m surprised you understood my post, Wordpress decided to delete some images and a couple of paragraphs.
Anyway ya Rico. Windows is hopeless.
Also Jayvee, what’s this “virus” that you speak of?
I had no problems with the mac… ‘Till I wanted to play games and install some obscure Taiwan-made hardware.
This Marco character. So Pedestrian.
Mike,
Good morning! Since you’re also in the business of educating us, your avid blog readers, can you also post something about “selling in e-bay for dummies”. Thanks!