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Nextcloud App - Looking for an Uninstaller that removes the local cached Files

JevermannNG
Contributor III

a week ago

Hi,

I am looking for an Uninstaller for the Nextcloud App that also would remove the local cached Nextcloud Files.

Because the location of those cached Files can vary, do I have to check the Nextcloud preference file of each User to find out the right location?

Thanks for any help!

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howie_isaacks
Valued Contributor III

a week ago

You should write one yourself. For several years I have used an app called AppCleaner (https://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/) to perform uinstalls of apps. This app will also find all the caches, plists, and other files associated with the app I am uninstalling and it will list all of them and show their location. You could use AppCleaner to show you where all the bits and pieces are and then write a script that removes all of them, along with the app. Using AppCleaner to find the locations of all the files, I have written several uninstall scripts.

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howie_isaacks
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a week ago - last edited Thursday

Something like this should work. I installed the app on a Mac VM and then ran this script on it after launching the app. I didn't login to anything. I just wanted to ensure that the app created all of its files for me to uninstall. I deleted the app as a separate step but you could probably include it in the "nextCloudFiles" variable. I used "rm -rf" for deleting files since that will work on either a file or a folder. Some of the paths are folders.

#!/bin/zsh

currentUser=$(/bin/ls -l /dev/console | /usr/bin/awk '{ print $3 }')
nextCloudApp="/Applications/Nextcloud.app"
nextCloudFiles=(
	"/Users/"$currentUser"/Library/Application Scripts/com.nextcloud.desktopclient"
	"/Users/"$currentUser"/Library/Caches/Nextcloud"
	"/Users/"$currentUser"/Library/Group Containers/com.nextcloud.desktopclient"
	"/Users/"$currentUser"/Library/HTTPStorages/com.nextcloud.desktopclient"
	"/Users/"$currentUser"/Library/HTTPStorages/com.nextcloud.desktopclient"
	"/Users/"$currentUser"/Library/LaunchAgents/com.nextcloud.desktopclient.plist"
	"/Users/"$currentUser"/Library/Preferences/Nextcloud"
	"/Users/"$currentUser"/Library/Preferences/com.nextcloud.desktopclient.plist"
	"/private/var/db/receipts/com.nextcloud.desktopclient.bom"
	"/private/var/db/receipts/com.nextcloud.desktopclient.plist"
)

# Delete Nextcloud app
echo "Deleting Next Cloud app"
rm -rf "$nextCloudApp"

# Delete Nextcloud user files
	for files in "${nextCloudFiles[@]}"; do
		echo "Deleting ${files}"
		rm -rf $files
	done

 

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