Painter Essentials 8 Mac: How To Manually Uninstall

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To manually remove Painter Essentials 8 on a MacOs, please follow the steps outlined below:

Method#1

  1. Remove the Painter Essentials 8 launcher by dragging it to the Trash icon on the Dock or control+click > Move to trash. 
  2. Remove the Applications > Painter Essentials 8 folder by dragging it to the Trash icon on the Dock. 
  3. Remove the /Users/{username}/Library/Application Support/Corel/com.corel.PainterEssentials8, Painter Essentials 8 and Painter Essentials 8 Config folders by dragging it to the Trash icon on the Dock. 
  4. Remove the /Users/{username}/Library/Preferences/ com.corel.PainterEssentials8 folder and com.corel.PainterEssentials8.plist by dragging it to the Trash icon on the Dock. 
  5. From the Finder menu, choose Empty Trash. 
    If you need to remove the serial number information (dta files, etc.) also remove this folder and subfiles 
  6. {MainHD}/Library/Preferences/com.corel.PainterEssentials8

 Note: 

To delete an item either drag it to the Trash or a quicker way is to use control+click > Move to trash. 

 

Method #2 (Manual uninstall)  

To go back to a state prior to the installation of Painter Essentials 8, perform the following.  

Note:  

First, remove Painter Essentials 8 from Dock, if exist (right-click the icon in Dock > Options > Remove from Dock  

Then, in the Finder menu click:  

Go > Computer  

 {MainHD}/Applications/Painter Essentials 8  
 {MainHD}/Library/Application Support/CrashReporter/ "only things related to Corel"  
 {MainHD}/Library/LaunchAgents/com.corel.CorelUpdateHelperTask.agent.plist  
 {MainHD}/Library/LaunchAgents/update.log  
 {MainHD}/Library/Logs/Corel/tmpsn.plist  
 {MainHD}/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/"only things related to Corel"  
 {MainHD}/Library/Preferences/com.corel.CUH  
 {MainHD}/Library/Preferences/com.corel.CUH.update 
 {MainHD}/Library/Preferences/com.corel.PainterEssentials8 
 {MainHD}/Library/Preferences/com.corel.PCU2  
 {MainHD}/Library/Preferences/Corel  

 

Go > Go to Folder... type "~/Library" without the double quote and click Go (or click the Finder menu Go while holding the option key will show Library)  

/Users/{username}/Library/Application Support/com.apple.sharedfilelist/com.apple.LSSharedFileList.ApplicationRecentDocuments/com.corel.PainterEssentials8.sfl2 
 /Users/{username}/Library/Application Support/Corel/*.*  
 /Users/{username}/Library/Application Support/CrashReporter/ "only things related to Corel"  
 /Users/{username}/Library/Caches/com.corel.CUH  
 /Users/{username}/Library/Caches/com.corel.dimexe  
 /Users/{username}/Library/Caches/com.corel.PainterEssentials8 
 /Users/{username}/Library/Caches/com.corel.dwnld  
 /Users/{username}/Library/Cookies/com.corel.CUH.binarycookies  
 /Users/{username}/Library/Cookies/com.corel.PainterEssentials8.binarycookies  
 /Users/{username}/Library/LaunchAgents/com.corel.CorelUpdateHelperTask.agent.plist  
 /Users/{username}/Library/LaunchAgents/update.log  
 /Users/{username}/Library/Preferences/com.corel.CUH 
 /Users/{username}/Library/Preferences/com.corel.CUH.update 
 /Users/{username}/Library/Preferences/com.corel.dimexe  
 /Users/{username}/Library/Preferences/com.corel.dwnld  
 /Users/{username}/Library/Preferences/com.corel.PainterEssentials8 
 /Users/{username}/Library/Preferences/com.corel.PainterEssentials8.plist  
 /Users/{username}/Library/Preferences/com.corel.PCU2  
 /Users/{username}/Library/Preferences/Corel 
 /Users/{username}/Library/Receipts/com.corel.CUH.bom 
 /Users/{username}/Library/Receipts/com.corel.CUH.plist  
 /Users/{username}/Library/Receipts/com.corel.LaunchAgents.bom 
 /Users/{username}/Library/Receipts/com.corel.LaunchAgents.plist  
 /Users/{username}/Library/Receipts/com.corel.Messages.bom  
 /Users/{username}/Library/Receipts/com.corel.Messages.plist  
 /Users/{username}/Library/Receipts/com.corel.PCU2.bom  
 /Users/{username}/Library/Receipts/com.corel.PCU2.plist  
 /Users/{username}/Library/WebKit/com.corel.PainterEssentials8  
 /Users/{username}/Library/Saved Application State/com.corel.PainterEssentials8.savedState 

 

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