How to Delete/Uninstall/Remove/Reinstall QuarkXPress on Mac OS X

Since there are apparently almost no instructions on how to remove QuarkXPress completely from your system, I have compiled a list of files to remove. This should leave no traces of Quark ever being installed on your system. It even works with reinstalling a trial after you found out that the just installed version is older than the most recent one available.

There is no way the installer will let you install over an existing 30 day trial version – even if you you installed it and never used it. This happened to me today when a client needed to have a special inhouse version of Quark installed before the actual serial numbers arrived.

To part with QuarkXPress once and for all, delete the following files if present (may depend on which version is actually installed):

/Applications/QuarkXPress [folder]
/Library/Preferences/Quark [folder]
/Library/ScriptingAdditions/QXPScriptingAdditions.osax [file]
~/Library/Preferences/Quark [folder]
~/Library/Preferences/QXPInstallDataOLD [file]
~/Library/Preferences/User Data {some number} [look for the file with the Quark icon and delete it]

Optional additional deletes:

/Library/Frameworks/KodakCMS.framework
/Library/Frameworks/LogoSync.framework
/Library/Frameworks/Xerces-c-xc.framework
/Library/Frameworks/Xalan-c-xc.framework

In case you know of some files I might have overlooked, please add your comments for the benefit of all.