I use app delete and it will trash the files.  it asks if you want  to archive 
or delete them.  Its a great app.
Jim

On Dec 21, 2013, at 6:37 PM, Nicholas Parsons <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> AppDelete Light is available from the Mac App Store at half the price of the 
> full version.
> 
> Most of these apps cannot be in the Mac App Store as they do not comply with 
> the App Store's rules on sandboxing. Their purpose is to find and remove 
> files related to other apps, and this process itself does not comply with 
> sandboxing rules. Hence AppDelete Light, and I suspect any other similar app 
> in the Mac App Store, can often only identify the related files that should 
> also be deleted along with the app, but cannot actually trash them for you. 
> For this reason I wouldn't really bother with them myself, as I want the app 
> to just trash all relevant files for me with no further input from me.
> 
> I tried CleanApp before, or perhaps it was App Cleaner, but whichever it was 
> I didn't find it very accessible. I've read reviews of these kinds of apps by 
> reputable sighted people, and AppDelete wasn't rated the highest, but I've 
> been really impressed with how easy and accessible it is.
> 
> If you do get AppDelete, I've found that I have to navigate to the app I wish 
> to delete, open the context menu, and choose AppDelete for it to work. Simply 
> pressing command-delete on the app doesn't seem to work for me.
> 
> Best,
> Nic
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