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How do you properly uninstall Bittorrent Sync on Mac OSX? I can't find anything in the official FAQ or the User Guide
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How do you properly uninstall Bittorrent Sync on Mac OSX? I can't find anything in the official FAQ or the User Guide
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Both of the answers above are still relevant but with Version 2 occured a new problem:
You cannot delete the sync.app because there are plug-ins running:
'The item “BitTorrent Sync” can’t be moved to the Trash because some of its plugins are in use.'
The quick and dirty solution: You need to quit both "Sync Finder Extension" and "CMFSyncAgent" via activity monitor, then delete sync.app.
Here is the funny part: If one deletes all the files mentionend (cache, preferences, app support...) inclusive "sync finder extension" in ~/Library/Containers
but not sync.app itself then the "sync finder extension" reappears in its container-folder and is loaded again after a restart.
I don't know how it gets started again, because there are no launch demons, no launch agents, no kernel extensions or startup item I could find that starts up the plug-ins. I looked in launchctl but still no luck.
Since there is no FAQ for really uninstalling bittorrent sync 2 I qould appreciate if someone could comment or answer this question.
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There is an official way of uninstalling BitTorrent Sync now: http://help.getsync.com/customer/portal/articles/1940812-how-do-i-uninstall-sync-?b_id=3895.
– yihangho – 2015-05-22T14:38:39.057'official' uninstall guidelines are now at http://help.getsync.com/hc/en-us/articles/204775029
– goredwards – 2016-06-02T00:03:15.1006
In Activity Monitor, search for and Force Quit "Sync Finder Extension". Afterwards you can remove BitTorrent Sync.app from Applications.
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Delete the application /Applications/BitTorrent Sync.App
Delete the preferences and caches. In Terminal:
rm -R ~/Library/Caches/com.bittorrent.Sync/
rm -R ~/Library/Caches/com.bittorrent.Sync.DumpUploader/
rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.bittorrent.Sync.*
rm -R ~/Library/Application\ Support/BitTorrent\ Sync
This works when downgrading from 2.0 to 1.4.111 (latest 1.4 at the time of this writing) http://forum.bittorrent.com/topic/34316-latest-14-beta-desktop-build-14111/
– unom – 2015-04-28T04:57:13.1232
You can just move the application to the trash.
There is a preference file in ~/Library/Preferences/
and cache files in ~/Library/Caches/com.bittorrent.Sync/
, but you don't have to delete them.
@Ramhound it can't be deleted because it has plugins that continue to run after quitting the application. – Louis – 2015-07-15T23:36:29.130
There is an official uninstall guide for version 2 that mentions all the things you have to do: http://help.getsync.com/customer/en/portal/articles/1940812-how-do-i-uninstall-sync-?b_id=3895
– Frank – 2015-10-10T19:30:57.883You should be able to simple delete the application much like you uninstall any other application in OS X. http://superuser.com/questions/92504/uninstall-on-mac-os-x?rq=1
– Ramhound – 2013-12-31T13:38:33.950