Uninstall Adobe After Effects on Mac

Author Tasnia Salinas By Tasnia Salinas, on January 18, 2021, in Mac Uninstaller

What Is Adobe After Effects? Adobe After Effects is a digital visual effects, motion graphics, and compositing application developed by Adobe (How To Uninstall Adove Lightroom CC on Mac). Adobe After Effects is wildly used in the post-production process of film making and television production. Adobe After Effects also functions as a very basic non-linear editor, audio editor, and media transcoder. In 2019, Adobe After Effects won an Academy Award for scientific and technical achievement (Get Best Adobe Uninstaller for Mac 2019).

Why uninstalling Adobe After Effects on Mac? Adobe After Effects offers a range of video composing features but on the other hand, it also put great burden on your Mac computing memory. So if you're amateur film maker, or your Mac is running out of sufficient resource, it's suggested to choose an entry-level Adobe After Effects alternative. Follow this quick tutorial to learn how to easily uninstall Adobe After Effects on macOS Catalina (Learn How To Uninstall Adobe Acrobat Reader on Mac).

How To Uninstall Adobe After Effects on Mac

Table of Content:

Part 1: How To Uninstall Adobe After Effects on Mac Manually

After Apple announced macOS Catalina this month, it becomes even harder to clean uninstall software programs on Mac. The regular method to uninstall Adobe After Effects will leave tons of application leftover junk on your Mac. Follow easy steps below to learn how to completely uninstall Adobe After Effects on macOS Catalina (How To Completely Uninstall MacKeeper on Mac).

  • Step 1: Quit Adobe After Effects and kill all Adobe After Effects background threads in Activity Monitor > Open Finder app on Mac > Applications > Adobe After Effects > Move Adobe After Effects to Trash:
  • How To Uninstall Adobe After Effects on Mac
  • Step 2: To clean up abandoned Adobe After Effects video randering engine, user preferences and other third-party tools, open Finder > Go > Go To Folder > Enter:
  • ~/Library/Application/Support/Adobe After Effects/
    How To Uninstall Adobe After Effects on Mac
  • Step 3: Manually find all Adobe After Effects related application junk in these subfolders: Application Support | Caches | Containers | Frameworks | Logs | Preferences | Saved | Application State | WebKit
  • How To Uninstall Adobe After Effects on Mac
  • Step 4: Clean up the files associated with Adobe After Effects to Trash > Empty Trash and restart your Mac to finish the removal of Adobe After Effects on your Mac.
  • How To Uninstall Adobe After Effects on Mac Manually

Part 2: How To Clean Uninstall Adobe After Effects on Mac [Time-Saving Method]

After Effects has extensive plug-in support; a broad range of third-party plug-ins are available, which makes it a severe headache if you need to get rid of After Effects manually. Fortunately, You can use Omni Remover, an expert Adobe After Effects Uninstaller software that can uninstall Adobe After Effects on 1-Click basis. Here are the detailed steps about how to uninstall Adobe After Effects with Omni Remover. Free Download


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    Step 1:

    Click here to download Omni Remover > Install and Open Omni Remover on your Mac.

    How To Completely Uninstall Adobe After Effects on Mac Step 1
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    In Omni Remover > App Uninstall > Choose Adobe After Effects icon > Clean Uninstall (iMessage and FaceTime Waiting for Activation).

    How To Completely Uninstall Adobe After Effects on Mac Step 2
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    Then Omni Remover will start scanning all Adobe After Effects data/files > After it finished scanning, click Clean Uninstall to start removing Adobe After Effects Client from your Mac.

    How To Completely Uninstall Adobe After Effects on Mac Step 3

The Bottom Line

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