Under productivity apps category, you can checkout our list of free mail apps for mac and paid alternative to apple mail apps for mac. In order to completely change the default application for that specific file type follow the steps below. Uninstalling default Mac OS X apps, like iCal, iChat. Ask Question 1. I just want to uninstall some Mac default applications, for example, iCal, FaceTime, iChat and so on. That's because I do want to recover my free disk space from those things I will never use.
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I just want to uninstall some Mac default applications, for example, iCal, FaceTime, iChat and so on.
That's because I do want to recover my free disk space from those things I will never use.
Is there any method to uninstall them?I tried moving them into trash but it didn't work.
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Many OS X applications have hooks to others, so there's sort of a dependency. One good example is Mail.app and the calendar.
The application packages are only part of what you see—many of them have underlying frameworks in the
/System
folder. So, the .app
files are probably just the tip of the iceberg and won't really make a drastic impact.*The easiest way to save space in OS X is to remove unused languages.
Other tips are mentioned here:
The single most important tip though is to avoid any sort of 'cleaning' apps like MacKeeper, CleanMyMac, et cetera.
If you want to go for it, you can force-delete application packages by opening up Terminal.app, and then calling something like:
However, do this at your own risk. Keep a backup and don't complain the day you run into an error :)
* For example, Messages.app—the successor to iChat—uses around 26 MB. FaceTime is 5.4 MB.
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