Properly uninstalling a program (1 Viewer)

[ann post]

my macbook came from ebay, and the previous person had installed toast, except without activating the serial for it, which i dont have. For some reason one extension associated with toast conflicts with the latest update, and has completely disabled my quite new and expensive (to me) audio interface. So i cant do any work until i get rid of this toast program. I'm assuming dragging and dropping the application to the trash will only delete the program and not the extension. Is there a proper/thorough way to do this so this problem goes away without messing anything up in the process??

 

[nooleen]

try picking the big bits of toast out with a tweezers and then get a hoover with really good suction at it. that's my best advice.

 

[ann post]

SRSLY nooly. this is bad shit. the hoover is at work.

 

[nooleen]

look, ok, someone had to get that joke done with before the thread could progress, i laid myself on the line here, i gave it 110%, and at the end of the day, i need to go to bed
wake me up with a plate of toast in the morning

 

[GO]

ZING!

 

[ann post]

i invented a new type of cheese toastie a few months back (not the one on me facebook). I'm holding off till the right time to share it with the world.

 

[nofriendo]

appzapper
appdelete
or AppTrap

all of them should do the job

 

[Goodbye]

AppDelete is grate and only costs about a fiver

also very good in Cleanmymac which does a shitload of clearing out of junk.

But if its a second hand mac, why don't you just do a clean install of the OS and make it yours

 

[ann post]

thanks, i'll have a spin at those tonight.

I probably will do that soon Ian, but at the time i got it 'it hit the ground running' so to speak, i'd need to wait till a gap in projects to do that.

 

[ann post]

appdelete removed the evil program. the extension thing had to be picked out by hand after though.

however, i am still sitting in silence and its the worst thing ever ever ever.

 

[Goodbye]

i dont follow?

 

[HMD]

A clean install will only take a couple of hours. you could do it on friday in between mass and the stations of the cross

 

[magicbastarder]

does this thread put paid to the claim that macs are sooo much easier to use than wintel?

asks the guy who has done two full OS installs on his system (vista to 7 to xp) in the last week, in order to get his film scanner to work.

 

[GO]

I reckon XP is the best of the lot.

 

[error type 11]

Install applejack and run that if its pre 10.6 to clean out the caches and so on

 

[ann post]

i dont follow?

basically the advice you gave me was sound, but didn't solve the problem and i've gone back to customer support with it.

A clean install will only take a couple of hours. you could do it on friday in between mass and the stations of the cross

customer support have started saying things like this now, and how hard is this actually?? I've to record a band in about 48 hours.

does this thread put paid to the claim that macs are sooo much easier to use than wintel?
asks the guy who has done two full OS installs on his system (vista to 7 to xp) in the last week, in order to get his film scanner to work.

technology is shit

Install applejack and run that if its pre 10.6 to clean out the caches and so on

Its post 10.6 but thanks.

 

[Goodbye]

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[ann post]

at this stage i just probably have to do the clean install. any guides on how to do this would be appreciated. I have some disks that look like they might be for that. backing up my stuff is probably the first stage???