Comments on: How to Delete Safari, Mail, FaceTime, Photo Booth, and Other Default Mac OS X Apps

By: Badger

Badger — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:50:41 +0000

My laptop running Lion has a 120MB disk which is split between OSX and Windows 7. Freeing 250MB – 500MB by removing programs I NEVER use would be great.

Before you ask why I upgraded . . . newer and free XCode.

By: Spencer "Thunderball" Thayer

Spencer "Thunderball" Thayer — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:54:38 +0000

If you want to do this without the worry of loosing the applications forever do the following:

sudo mv /Applications/Mail.app/ /Volumes/Macintosh HD/SystemsAppsThatSuck
sudo mv /Applications/QuickTime\ Player.app/ /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/SystemsAppsThatSuck
sudo mv /Applications/FaceTime.app/ /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/SystemsAppsThatSuck
sudo mv /Applications/Chess.app/ /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/SystemsAppsThatSuck
sudo mv /Applications/Safari.app/ /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/SystemsAppsThatSuck
sudo mv /Applications/iTunes.app/ /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/SystemsAppsThatSuck
sudo mv /Applications/iMovie.app/ /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/SystemsAppsThatSuck
sudo mv /Applications/Messages.app/ /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/SystemsAppsThatSuck
sudo mv /Applications/Photo\ Booth.app/ /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/SystemsAppsThatSuck
sudo mv /Applications/GarageBand.app/ /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/SystemsAppsThatSuck
sudo mv /Applications/iPhoto.app/ /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/SystemsAppsThatSuck

By: ShaLipe

ShaLipe — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 14:06:43 +0000

I would just leave Mail alone and ignore it but once in a while it pops up wanting me to create an account… It’s just annoying! Thank you for the tutorial!

By: Ben J

Ben J — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 01:28:43 +0000

It may appear that your keyboard is disabled but it isn’t. It just doesn’t show that you’re typing a password in Terminal when it requests.

Continue to type your password and press enter once finished.

By: Ed

Ed — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 22:34:38 +0000

Works fine until enter password.
Can not insert password with keyboard.
Key board is disabled.

By: mike

mike — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 21:46:05 +0000

Cause apple sucks ballz thats why they bundled it

By: Todd Edwards

Todd Edwards — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 01:44:17 +0000

I compressed mail.app (made it a zip file), then deleted the original. That way, if anything goes wrong, I can simply unzip mail and have it back without having to reinstall OS X.

By: jim

jim — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 21:12:03 +0000

Has anyone tried deleting mail.app? Did it cause any other problems? I don’t use mail. I’ve tried everything under the sun to get it to stop auto-starting, but nothing works! Everything is off. Everything is disconnected. But still, it opens, bouncing around, about 6 times a day. I’m at my wits-end and ready for an rm surgery.

By: Brad Lewis

Brad Lewis — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 23:36:15 +0000

Just to play Devil’s advocate for a second on why someone would want to delete one of these programs. I teach at the high school level and have 20 iMac computers in my room. Naturally, my students want to play with them and the #1 app they play with most is Photo Booth.

I spent a lot of my time policing that activity and asking my students to stop using it. Last year, I deleted Photo Booth from the computers (I was using Snow Leopard so moving it to the trash was all I had to do) and that was a God send! I didn’t have to waste my time telling my students to get off Photo Booth. Total time saver!

And just a side note – yes I have tried Parental Controls, but that inadvertently also locks out our Adobe CS programs when I do that, causing more problems for me to have to deal with. Just easier to delete the application.

Now I have new iMacs with Lion OSX and was disappointed to see that message pop up. My only concern is that if I ever wanted to re-install it then I would have to re-install OSX.

By: Ishayu

Ishayu — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:18:28 +0000

Piracy is a term which implies that infringing copyright is the moral equivalent to attacking ships. Piracy is very bad. Copying software… not quite so bad.

When he says free he means free as in freedom. He likes to be free of the restrictions of only using OS X so he uses a cross platform solution instead of one that locks him down to OS X.

What’s wrong with being tied to Mac OS X is in the very term. I love Mac OS X and I use it all the time, don’t get me wrong. But the moment it ties me to something I lose my freedom, and that’s not something I want any software to do.

By: abraham

abraham — Mon, 07 May 2012 02:14:37 +0000

Great Tutorial, Thank you.

By: OSX4Life

OSX4Life — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 17:26:51 +0000

Finally got rid of that pesky, good-for-nothing QuickTime Player so I can make all my files default to good old QuickTime Player 7, the way nature intended!

Jim: “This is great advice. I’m finding I am using Google Apps moreso than the Apple Stuff. Free is a good thing, and I don’t have to be tied to the Mac OS.”

Jim, free is good. So is piracy, I heard. And what’s wrong with being tied to Mac OS? Please. You’re on an OS X site. Are you wearing your flame retardant suit?

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By: Emily H

Emily H — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:03:26 +0000

Why is it that Apple retains such tight control over all of it’s products? Once the computer has been purchased, it seems as though the owner should be able to do as they wish, rather than have to go through command functions to remove unnecessary programs. It is a similar issue as that which has been found with the iphones and Apple’s fight to prevent people from installing whatever os they want on the phone.

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