Atom Uninstall

Tue, 28 Aug 2018 07:12:15 -0500

No, the Atom text editor does not have an uninstaller. On Mac OS X, to completely uninstall, remove the following files and directories:

~/.atom
/usr/local/bin/atom (NB only present if command line tools installed)
/usr/local/bin/apm (NB only present if command line tools installed)
/Applications/Atom.app
~/Library/Application Support/com.apple.sharedfilelist/com.apple.LSSharedFileList.ApplicationRecentDocuments/com.github.atom.sfl
~/Library/Preferences/com.github.atom.plist
~/Library/Application Support/com.github.atom.ShipIt
~/Library/Application Support/Atom
~/Library/Caches/com.github.atom.ShipIt/
~/Library/Saved Application State/com.github.atom.savedState
~/Library/Logs/Atom/
~/Library/Preferences/com.github.atom.helper.plist
~/Library/Preferences/com.github.atom.LSSharedFileList.plist
~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.github.atom.ShipIt.<letters/numbers>.plist
~/Library/Saved Application State/com.github.atom.savedState
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*NB:* The `<letter/numbers>` in the file name located in `~/Library/Preferences/ByHost` appear to be a unique string per machine.

*NB:* Some of these files/directories may not be present. Older installations are likely to have all of them. Some of them aren't on my system with a new Atom install.

**DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, COPY AND PASTE THE CODE ABOVE INTO THE TERMINAL WITH `rm`.** The code contains spaces and cannot be used on the command line without escaping the spaces.

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