Ultimate Guide To Uninstall Growl Software on Mac

By Tasnia Salinas, on January 12, 2021, in Mac Uninstaller

What Is Growl? Growl is a global notification system and pop-up notification sender for the Mac OS X and Windows. Applications can use Growl to display small notifications about events which may be important to the user (Uninstall Akamai NetSession on Mac). Growl software allows users to fully control their notifications, while allowing application developers to spend less time creating notifications. Growl can be used in conjunction with Apple's Notification Center that is included in Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) and higher.

Why uninstalling Growl on Mac? Even though Growl is a third-party application from a reputable developer, many commonly used applications are not integrated with Growl (How To Uninstall VirtualBox on Mac). If you find no use of Growl and want to clean uninstall Growl from your macOS, read this quick Growl removal guide to accomplish.

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Table of Content:

• Part 1: How To Uninstall Growl on Mac Manually
• Part 2: How To Clean Uninstall Growl on Mac [Time-Saving Method]

For Growl 1.2.2 (or any version prior to 1.3), which is installed as a preference pane, you need to removal it via System Preferences. But for the current version of Growl (1.3 and above), you can trash it from Applications folder. Unfortunately this common method will leave tons of Growl leftover junk on your Mac. To completely uninstall Growl from macOS, follow steps below to start (How To Uninstall Dashlane Password Manager on Mac).

Steps To Uninstall Growl 1.2.2 and Earlier Version:

• Step 1: Quit Growl and stop all Growl related components in Activity Monitor > Open System Preferences > Growl:

Steps To Uninstall Growl 1.3 and Newer Version:

• Step 1: Quit Growl > Open Folder > Applications > Growl:

• Step 2: To clean up remained Growl app cache junk, user preferences and other settingss, open Finder > Go > Go To Folder > Enter ~/Library/Application/Support/Growl/

• Step 3: Here are more Growl related application junk in these subfolders should be wiped out: Application Support | Caches | Containers | Frameworks | Logs | Preferences | Saved | Application State | WebKit

• Step 4: Clean up the files associated with Growl to Trash > Empty Trash and restart your Mac to finish the removal of Growl on your Mac.

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