I'm probably not the first one to ask this but a definite reply/solution would gain in being repeated here again. So, I want to eradicate from my HD (Lion) any and all files however small associated with this insane piece of software (updated again today!). What should/must I trash precisely? I don't trust the Uninstall Flash Player from Adobe. I'm not so sure it removes everything.
Thanks!
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.1)
Go to /Library/Internet Plug-Ins
If you see Flash Player.plugin or flashplayer.xpt
Move those files to the Trash.
Thanks for your answer! But allow me some paranoia, because we are dealing with an Adobe product here... Are you sure that's all there is? The Install Flash Player process does take some time to do it's business... What about the Flash Player. prefPane? And before deleting the said prefPane, should I delete "all local storage, saved choices, settings, and other data used by content in Flash Player across all browsers on this computer", as per thie prefPane menu (there appears to be a lot of stuff out there)? And the Macromedia Preferences? Trashing the Plugin removes the Plugin, I can verify that, but, having installed many Adobe software over the past 20 years, I want to be certain that the Plugin Package is the only thing Adobe installed on my HD.
The Install Flash Player process does take some time to do it's business... What about the Flash Player. prefPane?
It shouldn't take but 10 seconds to uninstall the Flash plugin using the uninstaller from the Adobe site.
Right or control click the Flash Player icon in System Preferences, then click: Remove Flash Player Preference Pane
The Flash Player prefPane is in System Preferences (Mac OS 10.7.1), fifth row ("Other").
Addendum:
I'm sorry, my reply seems inappropriate. I thought you said:
I'm not familiar with the prefPane you are referring to. |
Thats what I read from the email I received, but the discussion says otherwise. Sorry.
Message was edited by: Normand Lepine
Normand Lepine wrote:
But allow me some paranoia, because we are dealing with an Adobe product here... Are you sure that's all there is?
Download the free Easy Find here
http://www.devon-technologies.com/files/EasyFind.app.zip
Log into Admin user if not already, use it to find all instances of "Macromedia" this will also delete your hidden Flash cookies too. 😉
Log into each user and use it again.
If you need a automatic Flash cookie deletion, use Firefox and BetterPrivacy or Ghostery "enable Flash cookie delete" in it's preferences.
There is also AD Block Plus and Click2Clean, NoScript and Flashblock
And for extra paranoia, download the free OnyX for OS X and run ALL the cleaning and maintainence aspects and reboot.
Then run Disk Utility > erase free space option when your done.
There is also CCleaner for Mac, in Beta, but can combine the cleaning and scrubbing in one shot.
Normand Lepine wrote:
I don't trust the Uninstall Flash Player from Adobe. I'm not so sure it removes everything.
Thanks!
First, use the Adobe Uninstaller.
Then search for anything on your HD with:
find / -iname '*adobe*' -or -iname '*flash*'
Not everything will be flash, so you must decide which files to delete (if any)
Sorry, I mean to add the "edit" to my post when I changed it.
Ah yes, I forget about Flash in Easy Find, that turns up 124 entires on my machine, but of course not all of them are related to Flash.
First delete the "Macromedia" first pass, then run Flash in Easy Find and seek and destroy after that.
You could use the Flash installer then the uninstall just to compare the differences between the two states to eliminate possible errors on your part in the manual deletion phase.
I've bee able to see this so far, you on your own, good luck 🙂
Oh, that's good!
Thanks.
I didn't see anyone mention preference files that should be deleted. From the Finder option click on the Go menu and select Library. In the Library>Preferences folder look for the Macromedia folder. Delete that folder. You did say "radically." 😁
Well yes, I did say radically and EasyFind.app is a pretty good tool to get at all the junk. I discovered this free software here in this discussion (I love Apple Support Communities!). I use Transmit to see the hidden files (there probably is another way to list hidden files but Transmit is the one I know best). I ran EasyFind and found a treasure of flashy things...
How to radically uninstall Adobe Flash Player?
