Two Methods to Uninstall Traktor on Mac

• Bernice Curry
• 19-04-15 9:09
• 517

Come across problems when using Traktor on your Mac? Feel it necessary to uninstall your Native Instruments apps? How can you enable a complete removal of Traktor? This post is written to guide those who have the issues to uninstall Traktor properly.

Traktor is a professional DJ mixing software developed by Native Instruments

Hereby we will discuss two available methods of removing Traktor for Mac. If you want to uninstall Traktor in the most effective way, you can directly skip to the last section of this post and learn to use a professional uninstall tool. Otherwise, follow the following instructions to completely uninstall Traktor from your Mac computer.

Method 1: uninstall and remove Traktor via Finder

To uninstall Traktor smoothly and thoroughly, you will need to go through three steps: (1) quit Traktor, (2) delete Traktor in Finder, (3) detect and delete Traktor remnants.

First of all, go to check and quit Traktor if it is active…

Before uninstalling any app, you should check first if the app is currently running. An active app cannot be deleted in Finder, so please make sure Traktor is deactivated.

To quit Traktor, right click on it in the Dock and choose Quit to shut down the app. If the app is frozen or stops responding, you can choose Force Quit instead.

An alternative way to force quit an app: press the Command – Option – Esx keystroke to activate the Quit Applications windows, then choose the app in the list, click Force Quit button below, and click Force Quit again in the pop-up dialog.

If you are not sure whether the app or related process still runs, use this little trick:

• Open up Activity Monitor from Dock, via Launchpad or through Spotlight
• Type Traktor in search box, and select the process that contains the keyword
• Click the X icon on the upper left corner, and click (Force) Quit in pop-up dialog

After that, if Traktor remains in Dock, right click on its icon again and choose Options > Remove from Dock. And then you can go ahead to the standard uninstall.

Secondly, remove Traktor in the /Applications folder…

To uninstall Traktor, you should delete this app in both the Applications folder and Trash. Here are the universal steps to uninstall an app in different macOS versions:

• Open up Finder, and access to the /Applications folder from sidebar or Go menu
• Locate and select the folder labeled Native Instruments, drag its icon to the Trash in Dock, and drop it inside the Trash icon (alternatively, right click on Traktor and choose Move to Trash option)

• Choose Empty Trash from the Finder menu, and then click Empty Trash button

Note that emptying the Trash will permanently remove all the items inside. Before that, make sure that everything in Trash is no longer needed. To avoid any risk in this step, you can delete the app individually in Trash like this: open up Trash, right click on Traktor, choose Delete Immediately, and click Delete in the pop-up dialog.

For the apps that are installed from the Mac App Store, this option is available too:

• Access to Launchpad from the Dock, through Spotlight, or by gesture shortcut
• Locate the target app, then press and hold the app icon until it starts to jiggle
• Click the X icon on the upper left corner of the icon, and then click Delete button

If there is not X icon appearing in the app icon, that means this app is not installed through Mac App Store and therefore cannot be uninstalled by this dedicated option.

The last but not least, delete Traktor leftovers…

Wondering if there is any Traktor-related item remaining on your system after the uninstall? To fully get rid of all Traktor-associated files and folders, you can utilize the Search feature in Finder to locate and delete items that are pertaining to Traktor.

There are the common system folders that may store files associated with target app:
~/Library/Caches/, ~/Library/Preferences/, ~/Library/PreferencePanes/, ~/Library/ApplicationSupport/, ~/Library/LaunchAgents/, ~/Library/LaunchDaemons/

To begin with, you need to access to the hidden ~/Library (or /Library) system folder:

• Open the Finder, head to the Go menu in Menu Bar, and choose Go to Folder.

• Type ~/Library in the box that appears, and hit Enter key to open up the folder.

Then you can continue to locate Traktor components by the Search feature in Finder:

• In the ~/Library folder, type Traktor (or the vendor’s name) in the search bar
• Under This Mac, right click folders named after Traktor and choose Move to Trash

• Click “Library” to show the search result in the hidden directory, then right click the folders labeled Traktor and choose Move to Trash option

• After that, repeat the steps to detect Traktor leftovers in the /Library folder

Warning: Mistakenly deleting unrelated items in those hidden system folders could affect the normal use of other apps or even the system. We suggest you to temporarily move the files pertaining to Traktor to the Trash or any other folder for a few days. If nothing wrong occurs after the modification, you can consider to delete them in Trash.

Method 2: Fully Remove Traktor by Osx Uninstaller

Afraid of making any mistake in the manual removal of Traktor? Don’t want to pay much time in the repetitive tasks? A handy, automated uninstall tool is exactly what you need. But which one is reliable and do its work perfectly? After trying out several uninstall software on the market, we would like to recommend you Osx Uninstaller.

You can follow the 3 simple steps to completely uninstall Traktor for Mac:

• Step 1. Launch Osx Uninstaller, select Traktor and click Run Analysis button

• Step 2. Click Complete Uninstall button, and then click Yes to execute the uninstall

• Step 3. Click Back to Interface button to re-scan currently installed apps on Mac

That’s so easy to uninstall Tracktor if you have Osx Uninstaller in hand. It allows you to entirely and quickly remove a bunch of unwanted apps without trace left. You will no longer need to search for the app vestiges in different system directories, or worry if you would do wrong in the manual uninstallation.

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