I have tried this but when I do, the terminal ask me for password. I don't know what this password is? I don't have any password on my mac, i don't enter any password when I login and I can't get passed the first step below.
sudo QtSDK/SDKMaintenanceTool.app/Contents/MacOS/SDKMaintenanceTool
I am uninstalling Qt Creator 2.8.1 on Mac OS Yosemite 10.10 I just want to install the latest 5.3.2 version and get rid of the old one. I could probably choose a new folder but I don't want to do that and it doesn't let me install over the current folder.
I figured it out. Basically I was not able to locate the file because it never shows up in finder but here is how to get there.
From 'Go' menu on Finder, select 'Go to Folder'
Type ~/Library
This will take you to file system. I had two folders related to Qt (Qt and Qt 5.1). Both folders had MaintenanceTool file in it which I run and it asks if you want to uninstall and select yes. This will uninstall Qt Creator and all its components.
Update
Like aksiksi noted in comment below, it maybe installed in root folder for new versions. To go there type / in 'Go to Folder' dialog and look for Qt installation there.
Remove the main Qt directory. If you installed it somewhere else, delete that one instead
rm -rf ~/Qt
Then here are the directories with "Qt" in the name that I found on my system
rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Qt
rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/QtProject
rm -rf ~/.config/QtProject
Surprisingly there is no up to date instructions to uninstall Qt 5 even on Qt Wiki. Though you can do it easily (I just did it with Qt 5.15.1).
Launch MaintenanceTool.app from Finder, it should be in /Users/your_user_name/Qt by default. Click Next, then check on Uninstall only, that's all.
It removed ~/Qt folder but shamelessly left other folders untouched and you still needs to do #Boris's commands manually:
rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Qt
rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/QtProject
rm -rf ~/.config/QtProject
the problem is arising because you are using sudo command. Well you have to assign a password to the computer to use that. I also faced the same problem. It's very simple.Just go to
System Prefernces-> Users and Groups -> Change password
Hope this helps.
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I need to do a clean installation of VS Code on my mac.
I opened the terminal and removed the .vscode/ from ~. I also deleted the Visual Studio Code.app/ from /. However, after deleting all that and downloading a fresh copy, I installed and open the editor and the editor remembered the last project I had. For me, that means that it is something else I need to delete but I can't find it. I went to the documentation but can't find anything about uninstalling the editor.
Does anyone know how to completely uninstall VSCode from mac?
What I have tried
Following these instructions and doing a new installation of VS Code, but it still keeps remembering the last project I opened.
https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/getting_started/installation/uninstalling_xamarin/#Using_the_Uninstall_Script
Here are all the places where VSCode stores stuff on Mac OS X, besides the Visual Studio Code.app itself, which is in your Applications folder:
rm -fr ~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.VSCode.helper.plist
rm -fr ~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.VSCode.plist
rm -fr ~/Library/Caches/com.microsoft.VSCode
rm -fr ~/Library/Caches/com.microsoft.VSCode.ShipIt/
rm -fr ~/Library/Application\ Support/Code/
rm -fr ~/Library/Saved\ Application\ State/com.microsoft.VSCode.savedState/
rm -fr ~/.vscode/
Update (Feb 2020): There are potentially also hidden extension directories in your home directories. To get rid of everything make sure you look for those too. They start with .vscode-.
Please run this command with care. Maybe you want to keep extension directories.
rm -rf ~/.vscode*
The solution to my problem was to cd to the following path... /Users/<user>/Library/Application\ Support and delete the folder called Code. That folder contains all the setting and is not overwrite with a new installation. Looking through the entire file structure, VSCode name folder different. Sometimes folders are called .vscode/, or code/, or Visual Studio Code.app.
This worked for me ( VS Code 1.30 with MacOS - High Sierra 10.13.6 )
Step 1:
Close VS Code
Step 2:
rm -rf $HOME/Library/Application\ Support/Code
Step 3:
rm -rf $HOME/.vscode
Step 4:
Remove VSCode from application
Step5:
Reinstall VS Code if needed
If using a 3rd-party application is OK, check out App Cleaner.
It basically does the same thing as the other answer, but via a GUI and you don't have to manually remove all files/dirs one-by-one. Just drag VS Code from the Applications folder into App Cleaner, then it will find all the related files for you, and then you just have to click on the Remove button.
UPDATE (VS Code 1.46)
Based on a recent comment, even after using AppCleaner, re-installing VS Code seems to still "remember" your previous extensions. This is caused by a ~/.vscode/extensions folder, which for some reason, AppCleaner can't "see" and is not listed in its UI. You will have to remove this folder manually.
~$ find ~/. -maxdepth 1 -name .vscode -type d
/Users/gino/./.vscode
~$ ll /Users/gino/./.vscode/extensions
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 15 gino staff 480B Jun 30 14:14 dbaeumer.vscode-eslint-2.1.5/
... (all other extensions) ...
~$ rm -Rf /Users/gino/./.vscode
The homebrew cask code for VSCode provides a nice list of all the folders that you have to delete manually after moving the app itself into the trash:
- ~/.vscode
- ~/Library/Application Support/Code
- ~/Library/Application Support/com.apple.sharedfilelist/com.apple.LSSharedFileList.ApplicationRecentDocuments/com.microsoft.vscode.sfl*
- ~/Library/Caches/com.microsoft.VSCode.ShipIt
- ~/Library/Caches/com.microsoft.VSCode
- ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.microsoft.VSCode.ShipIt.*.plist
- ~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.VSCode.helper.plist
- ~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.VSCode.plist
- ~/Library/Saved Application State/com.microsoft.VSCode.savedState
Here is my approach:
Open finder
Click on Home icon(which has your username as label)
Click on Library Folder. Note Library folder may be hidden, so you will need to click on Shift+CMD+. to open hidden files and folders.
Click Application Support folder
Find Code folder beneath Application Support and delete it(You delete Code Folder of course)
I lost my old mac and had to reinstall vscode on my new mac. I thought I had lost all of my extensions but when I logged on the vscode they all seem to be stored on my vscode account. I don't know if that will make a difference.
If these steps are not enough, like for me, please consider removing these file and directory:
/usr/local/Caskroom/visual-studio-code
/usr/local/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-cask/Casks/visual-studio-code.rb
Run in a shell the following commands to check for others file or directories:
locate visual-studio-code
locate vscode
locate code
Bye.
It looks like XCode came out with a new update. This issue seems to be persistent where the iTunes Store does not render the update even though it posts it in the "Updates Installed in Last 30 Days" section. After I restart, I am then prompted to update again even though I have already done it twice. Ultimately, the update does not apply when I open XCode (it still shows 7.3, not 7.3.1):
There is only one way! For this you need:
1. Delete the XCode 7.3 from Applications folder
2. Download the Xcode 7.3.1 from here
3. install it manually
That's it))
A possible method of resolving this issue which has worked for people including myself, is as follows:
Close App Store.
Using terminal type the following:
open $TMPDIR/../C
Locate and then delete the folder named com.apple.appstore
Empty Trash folder, if you get an error message saying that files are in use try the following:
sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash/*
Restart Mac.
Once you have restarted your Mac try to install the update.
If this does not work delete Xcode from /Applications and repeat the above method.
I'm attempting to create a package installer for our product. Previously we installed with a .dmg, and the process was to just drag it to the /Applications folder. Now we want it to install to /Application/Company/Suite/product.
Problem is: If we use the .pkg installer on a system that previously had our product installed it creates the folders, but installs the product over the old location.
How can I make the pkg installer do the following:
Remove the old version
Install new version to proper location
I've had very little experience with OSX - so maybe I'm just missing something? Also looking in the applications folder - it doesn't appear that anything else is installed to a subdirectory, is it unusual to do things this way?
Thank you!
EDIT:
I'm looking into the answers located here OSX .pkg installer sometimes does not install .app file, differently worded problem - but the answer might be just what I need.
EDIT2: OSX .pkg installer sometimes does not install .app file Does not apply. We didn't install with any package manager - so there isn't a previous entry.
EDIT3: We were using dmg, but are now moving to pkg.
So I found the answer.
In order to have it install to a new location:
The plist inside the app package (product.app/Contents/Info.plist) has an identifier "CFBundleIdentifier", these needs to be different from the old application. For instance ours was "Company.Product-Name", I've changed it to "Company.Product.Name". This will allow the new installation to go to the new location.
In order to remove the old installation:
I simply added this line to the preinstall script:
"sudo rm -Rf '/Application/Product Name.app'"
Thank you for your assistance.
Does anyone know how to completely remove OSX-AVR from Mac OS X? I need newer support for avr-gcc, so I am going to install CrossPack for AVR, but I do not want any collisions from having multiple avr-gccs in my system. I have not found any documentation about uninstalling OSX-AVR, so I do not know how to get rid of everything.
Thanks,
Took me a while to find this but sometimes you have to install to uninstall, from the readme that popups after you install (located locally at /usr/local/CrossPack-AVR/manual/installation.html):
sudo /usr/local/CrossPack-AVR/uninstall
Have you checked whether there is a bom file for this installation. It might be in /Library/Receipts or ~/Library/Receipts. This file (you can view its content with lsbom) contains a list of all files belonging to an installation.
But I'm not sure whether OSX-AVR writes one.
The which command will tell you in what directory your program is installed, and then you can move that file into the trash.
sudo mv `which <yourProgramName>` ~/.Trash/
I used this to uninstall AVRDUDE from my crosspack installation and it worked fine. Someone has commented that this will not get rid of any extra files that may have been installed in other directories which is true but hopefully those files would be overwritten upon reinstall. This worked fine in my case.
brew remove avrdude worked for me (mac os x 10.11.4).
I want to remove all existing SDK versions as well as Xcode 4.
Xcode 4 Guide says to do this:
sudo /Xcode4/Library/uninstall-devtools --mode=all
But I don't have Xcode4 at this location and the only place I see it is under /Developer/Applications
I've already run the uninstall-devtools that was previously found in /Developer/Applications and then did a reinstall.
What else can I do to completely remove everything and start from scratch?
I use this command:
sudo /Developer/Library/uninstall-devtools --mode=all
Edit (1 year later):
If you've downloaded Xcode from the App Store, it's self-contained, as #mediaslave suggests. You can just drag it to the trash or use AppZapper (or a similar utility) to remove the developer tools.
If you're looking to update it, you can also do that straight through the App Store.
sudo /[xcode-path]/Library/uninstall-devtools --mode=all
Normally, [xcode-path] means /Developer, but if you have multiple versions, for example 3 is the first installed, 4 is second, /Developer will be xcode 3's root derectory and /Xcode4 for xcode 4.
Ensure Xcode, iOS Simulator, and the Mac App Store apps aren't running, then trying running the uninstall script at this (different!) location:
/Library/Developer/Shared/uninstall-devtools
This is where I found it.
Also delete Install Xcode.app from Applications folder, and Empty Trash.
Then run App Store again, and find/install Xcode.
su (or sudo su, whatever)
find / -name uninstall-devtools
This will reveal where the utility is...
If you have XCode 4.3.1, just Move To Trash the XCode.app file in the Applications folder.
If you have installed xcode from Mac App store, then you need to delete it from Launch pad. You can do this by locating xcode icon in launch pad, long click on the icon till it starts dancing. Then delete it and wait for a while till the xcode.app is deleted from /Application. If you manually delete xcode.app from /Application, App store will continue to think its installed and will not allow you to reinstall in future.
I tried to uninstall this by deleting it, but the AppStore still thought that it was installed. I deleted some preferences files in my /private directory, which made the AppStore "forget" that I had installed Xcode. I used the following command:
sudo find / -iname '*xcode*' 2> /dev/null | egrep '^/private.*' | xargs -I file sudo rm -rfv file
Which deleted the following files from my computer:
/private/var/db/receipts/com.apple.pkg.XcodeMAS_iOSSDK_6_1.bom
/private/var/db/receipts/com.apple.pkg.XcodeMAS_iOSSDK_6_1.plist
/private/var/folders/7d/n34963zx62s7znxyzn3dn6bh0000gq/C/com.apple.Xcode.503/CachedSpecifications-Xcode
/private/var/folders/7d/n34963zx62s7znxyzn3dn6bh0000gq/C/com.apple.Xcode.503/CachedSpecifications-xcodebuild
/private/var/folders/7d/n34963zx62s7znxyzn3dn6bh0000gq/C/com.apple.Xcode.503
I do not know what these files are used for, but it made the AppStore forget that it was installed, which is what I needed to happen. In my case, the AppStore was not allowing me to update to the new version of Xcode.