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How to uninstall calibre on Mac completelyRemove calibre from a Mac and keep your books: back up the calibre library, delete the app and clear the settings, plugins and caches it leaves behind.
How to uninstall Brave Browser on Mac completelyRemove Brave Browser from a Mac, save your bookmarks, passwords and wallet first, and find the caches, settings and updater helper it leaves behind.
How to uninstall Zoom on Mac completelyRemove Zoom from a Mac with its own uninstaller or by hand, and find the settings, caches, logs and background helpers it leaves behind.
How to uninstall GIMP on Mac completelyRemove GIMP from a Mac by hand, find the settings and cache it leaves behind, and back up the brushes and plug-ins you added before you start.
How to uninstall Avast on Mac completelyRemove Avast Security or Avast One from a Mac with Avast’s own uninstaller, then check the background items it can leave in the system folders.
How to uninstall Epic Games Launcher on Mac completelyRemove Epic Games Launcher from a Mac: uninstall your games first, delete the app, then clear the data, cache, settings and cookies it leaves behind.
How to uninstall Android Studio on Mac completelyRemove Android Studio from a Mac, and decide what to do with the Android SDK and emulators, which take gigabytes and may be used by other tools.
How to uninstall Opera on Mac completelyRemove the Opera browser from a Mac, save your bookmarks and passwords first, and find the profile, caches and settings it leaves behind.
How to uninstall CrossOver on Mac completelyRemove CrossOver from a Mac with the CodeWeavers removal tool or by hand, and archive your bottles first if you want to keep your Windows programs.
How to uninstall Cloudflare WARP on Mac completelyRemove Cloudflare WARP from a Mac with Cloudflare’s uninstall script, and check the background service, updater, settings and caches it can leave.
How to uninstall VirtualBox on Mac completelyRemove VirtualBox from a Mac with the uninstaller in its disk image, decide what to do with your virtual machines, and find the files it leaves.
How to uninstall Tailscale on Mac completelyRemove Tailscale from a Mac as Tailscale’s docs describe: the app, its system extension, the VPN configuration, Keychain entries and leftover files.
How to uninstall DuckDuckGo on Mac completelyRemove the DuckDuckGo browser from a Mac, keep your bookmarks and passwords with Sync & Backup, and find the data, caches and VPN parts it leaves behind.
How to uninstall Zotero on Mac completelyRemove Zotero from a Mac without losing your library: back up the data folder, delete the app, the Safari Connector and Word plugin, and clear the leftovers.
How to uninstall Discord on Mac completelyRemove Discord from a Mac with the steps Discord’s support gives, and find the caches, settings and updater files the app leaves behind.
How to uninstall Figma on Mac completelyRemove the Figma desktop app and its FigmaAgent font helper from a Mac, and clear the caches and settings they leave behind. Your files stay in your account.
How to uninstall Tor Browser on Mac completelyRemove Tor Browser from a Mac the way the Tor Project describes, and find the data folder, settings and updater files it leaves behind.
How to uninstall Anaconda on Mac completelyRemove Anaconda from a Mac with its uninstall script or by hand, undo conda’s lines in your shell, and export your conda environments before you start.
How to uninstall Docker Desktop on Mac completelyRemove Docker Desktop from a Mac with its own Uninstall option or by hand, and find the disk image, helpers and settings it leaves behind.
How to uninstall LM Studio on Mac completelyRemove LM Studio from a Mac, stop its background server, clear the caches and settings it leaves, and decide what to do with the models in ~/.lmstudio.
How to uninstall Xcode on Mac completelyRemove Xcode from a Mac with its simulator runtimes and the gigabytes it keeps in ~/Library/Developer, and know which of those files to keep.
How to uninstall Cursor on Mac completelyRemove the Cursor code editor from a Mac, find the settings, caches and updater files it leaves, and keep your extensions and agent worktrees if needed.
How to uninstall iTerm2 on Mac completelyRemove iTerm2 from a Mac, back up your profiles and settings first, and find the settings, caches, containers and shell integration lines it leaves behind.
How to uninstall Malwarebytes on Mac completelyRemove Malwarebytes from a Mac with its Uninstall Malwarebytes menu item or Malwarebytes’ uninstall tool, and clear the helper and data folders it leaves.
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