I deleted an application, and all the related files that I could discover. However there is one that had continued to allude me. It is an App Background Activity extension. Now I disabled it, but I would like to remove it all together. I would appreciate all the help and suggestions. Thank you.
Mac Studio, macOS 26.0
WilliamL wrote:
I deleted an application, and all the related files that I could discover. However there is one that had continued to allude me.
It is an App Background Activity extension. Now I disabled it, but I would like to remove it all together. I would appreciate all the help and suggestions. Thank you.
where?
what ?
how?
third party?
That sounds like Google Chrome...(?) Google is an advertising, personal information broker, and surveillance company
try
open the Library/Application Support/Google folder in your user account, you can delete the Chrome subfolder. That should get rid of any installed Chrome extensions.
Places to look for pieces, Finder>Go>Go To Folder copy & paste each location:
/usr/local/
/Library/Application Support/
/Library/LaunchDaemons/
/Library/LaunchAgents/
you can also look for application specific related items:
• ~/Library/Application Support/
• ~/Library/Preferences/
• ~/Library/Caches/
• ~/Library/LaunchAgents/
Thank you it was in the ~/Library/LaunchAgents/
Nothing to do with Google Chrome. Just a third party application that did not fit my needs.
Finding and deleting App Background Activity extension
