So I tried out TuneUp for the Mac, an iTunes organization/cleaning tool.

The interface immediately put me off, so I decided to uninstall.

I ran the installer, looking for an uninstall option, but could find no such thing. The website was not helpful in tracking down uninstall instructions, either.

This post by Kirk McElhearn indicates that he wasn’t able to find an uninstaller, either. Thank goodness for Hazel, which spotted that I had dragged the application to the Trash and offered to clean up for me.

It turns out that TuneUp does install an uninstaller–in ~/Library/Logs/TuneUp Uninstaller.app, of all places. “Another Windows company releasing a lame port of their software for Mac,” indeed.

Note that, unlike what Kirk indicates, there is more than simply the application in /Applications and the plugin in /Library/iTunes/iTunes Plug-ins. It also installs a bunch of crap in /usr/local/lib, and even four different frameworks in /Library/Frameworks.

Be warned before you install this sloppy software.