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Soundflower

Hi
Just updated OS Snow Leopard (10.6.2) and the sound output somehow switched to soundflower.
I did not install soundflower and do not like it when stuff like this happens. I therefore want to uninstall soundflower but can't find it in a finder search.
How can I get rid of it and should I?
Thanks

Mac Pro 3,1, Mac OS X (10.6.1), 2X2.8 GHz Quad core intel processors 4GB ram

Posted on Nov 10, 2009 2:30 AM

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Nov 11, 2009 1:46 AM in response to FBronner

THanks FBronner
I can't find any reference to soundflower in any apps.(Audacity, Audio Hijack(not Pro), iTunes) Cycling'74 sent me the below but I'm not confident about mucking around with code. Does it look OK to you? Thanks for your help -

If you are having difficulty removing Soundflower, open up a terminal and type:

ls /System/Library/Extensions/Soundflower.kext

if you see--
ls: /System/Library/Extensions/Soundflower.kext: No such file or directory

then soundflower is not on the system! You may need to restart just to make sure all applications do not still think it is loaded.


but if you see--
Contents

then soundflower is still installed.

Please type:
sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/Soundflower.kext

[ you will have to enter your admin password ]

sometimes the unloading may fail and you need to do the command again one or two times [ type uparrow, return ]

once the unload is successful, then you can blow away soundflower by typing:

sudo rm -r /System/Library/Extensions/Soundflower.kext

Once again, you will need to restart your computer for the changes to take effect.

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