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#APPZAPPER ALTERNATIVES MAC OS#
#APPZAPPER ALTERNATIVES INSTALL#

The drive and your mac will now make whirry and buzzy noises for a while. In the destination tab you'll need to select your now clean drive. In the "source" section, you'll need to navigate to and select the "InstallESD.dmg" file we copied earlier. Click on the "Restore" tab in the main disk utility pane.

#APPZAPPER ALTERNATIVES MAC OS#

Change the "format" dropdown to MAC OS Extended (Journaled) and then name your disk something that makes sense to you like "Mountain Lion Install".

Click on the "Erase" tab in the main disk utility pane.

You'll now see it in the left pane of the disk utility window, click on it to select it.

Plug in your blank USB drive from step 2.

Open "utilities" in your applications folder and open "Disk Utility".

Copy this file somewhere so you know where to find it.

#APPZAPPER ALTERNATIVES INSTALL#

When the contents of the install file are displayed you'll see a folder called "SharedSupport", open this up and you'll find a file called "installESD.dmg".

Secondary click (right click, whatever you want to call it) the install icon and choose "show package contents" from the menu.Download mountain lion from the app store, but don't install it otherwise the app disappears and you'll have to re download it.If it's not empty, don't worry we'll erase it in step 7. You'll need to get your hands on another external harddrive or usb stick at least 8gb, and it has to be empty as we're going to use this to make a mountain lion boot disk.Obvious), save anything you want to keep to an external harddrive. Start off by backing up whatever you need (I know this ones a bit.As per mckeed's answer, you can use AppZapper to delete an individual app, other alternatives being AppDelete or Clean my mac, although the latter could be a bit overkill for what you want.įresh install for ML is a different story though, I did a fresh install the other day and I'm super glad I did - I'm one of those people who just collects apps and files they don't need and everything gets a bit clogged after a while. Deleting the files from an individual app and doing a clean install of Mountain Lion are two different things.