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Em Ae
Em Ae

Reputation: 8704

Uninstalling atom from mac

I have followed this page to remove recommended directory. here is what i have removed so far

rm -rf ~/.atom
rm -rf /usr/local/bin/atom
rm -rf /usr/local/bin/apm
rm -rf /Applications/Atom.app
rm -rf ~/Library/Preferences/com.github.atom.plist
rm -rf ~/"Library/Application Support/com.github.atom.ShipIt"
rm -rf ~/"Library/Application Support/Atom"
rm -rf ~/"Library/Saved Application State/com.github.atom.savedState"
rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/com.github.atom
rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/com.github.atom.Shipit
rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/Atom

Yet, when i open the context menu on files to see open with option, I find Atom there. If i choose Atom to open given file, it opens Atom application.

So can someone tell how to uninstall atom properly?

I also notice that some of my files like .js are associated with atom editor i.e., they are displaying atom icon.

Upvotes: 6

Views: 4749

Answers (2)

Andrei Vieru
Andrei Vieru

Reputation: 174

Maybe is a bit late to reply at this post, but I ran into the same issue and found that Atom.app was still in some directory when I downloaded it and unzipped. I didn't drag it to Application folder at the beggining, but MacOs still identifies every .app file as an application, so I had to look for it and delete its folder:

find ~/ -iname Atom.app -exec rm -rf {} \;

Upvotes: 2

idleberg
idleberg

Reputation: 12882

Atom does not add an "Open with" option to the Finder context menu, you must have used a third-party tool or created it yourself (e.g. using an Automator workflow).

Take a look for that entry in ~/Library/Services.

Upvotes: -1

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