How To Uninstall Google Picasa on Mac Big Sur

By Tasnia Salinas, on January 01, 2021, in Mac Uninstaller

What Is Picasa? Picasa was an image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos, plus an integrated photo-sharing website, originally created by a company named Lifescape. In July 2004, Google acquired Picasa from Lifescape and began offering this handy photo editing utility as freeware (How To Uninstall Google Drive File Stream on Mac). "Picasa" is a blend of the name of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, the phrase mi casa (Spanish for "my house") and "pic" for pictures.

Why uninstalling Picasa on Mac? On February 12, 2016, Google announced it was discontinuing support for Picasa Desktop and Web Albums, effective March 15, 2016, and focusing on the cloud-based Google Photos as its successor. If you're using modern macOS like Mojave or Big Sur, you have large chance that the Picasa is not running smoothly. In this quick removal guide article, we will show how to uninstall Picasa on macOS Big Sur.

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Table of Content:

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

Google released several beta and full versions of Picasa for Mac (Intel-based Macs only), which are all simple for removal. However, the basic Mac App uninstalling process will leave tons of Picasa leftover junk and take up storage on your Mac. Follow steps below to learn how to completely uninstall Picasa on macOS Big Sur manually (How To Uninstall GIMP Photo Editor on Mac).

• Step 1: Quit Picasa and kill all Picasa background threads in Activity Monitor > Open Finder app on Mac > Applications > Picasa > Move Picasa to Trash:

• Step 2: To clean up useless Picasa photo editing presets, user preferences and other third-party tools, open Finder > Go > Go To Folder > Enter ~/Library/Application/Support/Picasa/

• Step 3: Manually find all Picasa related application junk in these subfolders: Application Support | Caches | Containers | Frameworks | Logs | Preferences | Saved | Application State | WebKit

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

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Except the native program, Picasa also comes with a variety of iPhoto plugins, and some add-on tools like Picasa Web Albums. Also these particular components make it even harder for a clean removal on Picasa. Fortunately, you can use Omni Remover, an expert Picasa Uninstaller software that can uninstall Picasa on 1-Click basis. Here are the detailed steps about how to uninstall Picasa with Omni Remover. Free Download

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Now can you get rid of Picasa on macOS Big Sur with our suggestions above? Omni Remover is just an reliable Mac App Uninstaller software that makes it easy to removing Picasa and other stubborn applications on macOS. It's also capable of freeing up storage space on macOS hard disk so as to keep your Mac clean. Give it a try here: Free Download Now

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