As we know, Box is a special application that contributes functions to the Mac computer. But uninstalling Box from your Mac can become a very painful question, especially for those people do it for the first time. You might delete it directly from the Finder although you know it is an incomplete removal. You might think it is unnecessary to uninstall it completely, because it is no harm to keep those unnecessary programs on Mac.

The fact is that your deleting of Box is an incomplete removal, those leftovers will occupy the valuable space and finally your Mac will work slowly. If you want to uninstall Box from Mac completely, continue your reading, this post has given a guide for you. I hope it is useful for all of you. There are two possible ways provided for you – remove manually and uninstalling by a tool named MacRemover. You will get to know how to uninstall Box on your Mac properly after reading.

Manually uninstall Box on Mac

Firstly, you should be clear that once you install an App on your Mac, there are some files installed together on Mac. Some Mac users uninstalling Box on their Mac is as simple as finding its icon and dragging it to the trash. It will get rid of the main file installed with Box, but it is an incomplete removal. So if you only delete a program, you just delete the main file, some leftovers still exist on you Mac. The accumulation of them slows down your Mac. What you hope is to fully remove them and save the space of Mac.

Here it is the steps for manually uninstalling Box on your Mac:

step 1. Delete Box to the Trash

Before deleting, you’d better quit Box and end all its processes, or you can’t begin your deleting.

• Open the finder, you can easily see the Application folder, click it. Then you can see all the programs installed on your Mac. Find the Box and click it. Drag the Box to the Trash in the dock. Also you can highlight this App with a single click and move it to the Trash by pressing Cmd+ Del on your keyboard.

Also you can try another method to delete Box from your Mac.

• For those download from the Mac App Store, open the Launchpad, it will show you all the Apps installed from App store. Hold down the Box’s icon until all the App icons jiggle and shows “X” on the icon’s upper left side. Then you can click the “X” and click delete.

step 2. Remove all files that is attached to your Box

Some Mac users finish this step and think that is all. But you just delete Box to the Trash, its lingering files, logs, cashes and other miscellaneous contents still exist. You still need to manually remove all the traces related with Box.

Open the finder, go to the Menu Bar, open the “go“menu, select the entry: | Go to Folder… And then enter the path of the Application Support folder: ~/Library

Search for any files or folders with the name of application or its vendor in the ~/Library/Preferences/ , ~Library/Application support/ and ~/Library/Caches/ folders. Right click on those items and click Move to Trash to delete them.

Besides, search the following locations to identify and delete those additional files:

~/Library/Preferences/.
~/Library/Application Support/.
~/Library/Caches/ Folders.

step 3. Empty the Trash to fully uninstall Box

Are you sure you will never need Box again? If yes, the last step you need to do is empty the Trash.

Note again that once you are certain you will never need Box, you can empty the Trash, which will free up space on your Mac. To empty the Trash, right click on the Trash icon, select Empty Trash, and then click Empty Trash to confirm.

Now you have known how to uninstall Box by yourself. All you need to do is 3 steps- delete, remove and empty. If you want to automatically uninstall Box, you can keep reading and try for MacRemover, which is an easier way for you.

Automatically uninstall Box by MacRemover

MacRemover is a smart tool for Mac users to uninstall any Apps, including Box. It helps you find out every components of the unwanted application, safely and completely remove them. MacRemover is a useful App to uninstall Box. Now let’s see how it works for us.

Before you start to uninstall Box, make sure that you have installed MacRemover. You don’t need to pay for it, it is a free App.

Step 1. After download MacRemover, drag its icon to the Application folder to finish installing.

Step 2. Open the Launchpad, then run MacRemover, here you can see all the Apps installed on your Mac. After finding Box, select it and click Run Analysis button to proceed.

Step 3. MacRmover will review related files and folders, then you can click Complete Uninstall button, then there will be a pop-up dialog box, click Yes to uninstall Box.

 

Now the whole steps have finished, it just takes you a little time, but all the files related with Box have successfully removed from your Mac. A easy operation, isn’t it?

That is all. Except effectively uninstalling Box, MacRemover can completely uninstall any unwanted, incompatible and corrupted Apps. It deals with any Apps after installing it. You can use it to erase all the additional files and it will keep your system clean.

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