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I installed Leawo Music Recorder for Mac and subsequently deleted it. However, in Sound, Input, I am still left with a LeawoVADevice virtual sound input device.
How can I delete it? I have tried CleanMyMac X, which found it, and claimed to have deleted it, but after rebooting the machine, it is still there.
My iMac is running 11.7.1 MacOS Big Sur.
Thanks in advance.
iMac 27″
In Finder, press Command-Shift-G and paste
/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins
Check the contents of its subfolders, namely "HAL", "MAS", "VST", and "Components".
Is there anything pertaining to Leawo?
Proceed in the same way with
~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins
Tell us what you find there.
In Finder, press Command-Shift-G and paste
/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins
Check the contents of its subfolders, namely "HAL", "MAS", "VST", and "Components".
Is there anything pertaining to Leawo?
Proceed in the same way with
~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins
Tell us what you find there.
In the folder /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL there is a folder called LeawoVADevice.driver with the following content:
% ls -alR
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 96 23 oct 10:05 .
drwx------@ 30 timothyread staff 960 8 nov 20:33 ..
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 160 23 oct 10:05 Contents
./Contents:
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 160 23 oct 10:05 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 96 23 oct 10:05 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1731 23 oct 10:05 Info.plist
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 96 23 oct 10:05 MacOS
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 96 23 oct 10:05 _CodeSignature
./Contents/MacOS:
total 384
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 96 23 oct 10:05 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 160 23 oct 10:05 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 193280 23 oct 10:05 LeawoVADevice
./Contents/_CodeSignature:
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 96 23 oct 10:05 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 160 23 oct 10:05 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2200 23 oct 10:05 CodeResources
Can I just delete it and reboot?
Many thanks,
Tim
Yes!!! It's gone. Thanks Luis, you're a star. That was killing me, like an itch I couldn't scratch.
Whatever you do, NEVER EVER install or use cleanmymac! This is utter garbage and can cause all sorts of trouble.
Thanks for the tip, willdo.
Yes, delete it and reboot, and it should be gone.
How to remove LeawoVADevice virtual sound input device
