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Uninstalling Adobe AIR-based Applications from Mac OSX

Posted on October 2, 2007 
Filed Under How tos, Macheadism, Internets

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.

Hat tip to Satisfaction’s Ted Grubb for the info.

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7 Responses to “Uninstalling Adobe AIR-based Applications from Mac OSX”

  1. jayvee f. on October 2nd, 2007 6:34 am

    adobe air for the mac is one of the most painstaking apps to run. i dont use it anymore!

  2. Rico on October 2nd, 2007 6:42 am

    OMG, you’re having a problem with a Mac?! Que horror!!!!

  3. jayvee f. on October 2nd, 2007 6:47 am

    ya but at least the problems are sexy problems!!!!

    not like viruses and hanging… lolz

  4. Mikey on October 2nd, 2007 7:00 am

    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?

  5. Marco, the site guy on October 2nd, 2007 7:48 am

    I had no problems with the mac… ‘Till I wanted to play games and install some obscure Taiwan-made hardware.

  6. Mikey on October 2nd, 2007 8:10 am

    This Marco character. So Pedestrian.

  7. His Awesomeness on October 3rd, 2007 6:17 pm

    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!

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