How to uninstall application Epudl from Epson

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How to uninstall application Epudl from Epson

Help please.....I have foolishly installed a software bundle from Epson which includes an ap called Epudl. Simply, it's driving me insane! I have tried to delete or uninstall every file that I can find fron Epson but it still rears it's head every single minute and freezes temporarily any opened window or work in progress.

Any ideas most gratefully received....Cheers!

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Mar 20, 2013 4:58 AM

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Paul_31

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Mar 20, 2013 5:44 AM in response to netbull

I assume you have checked that there isn't a 'proper' uninstaller app for the software from Epson?

If there isn't you could try using AppCleaner: http://www.freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/

And if there is still any crud left behind, EasyFind to search and delete (use with caution before deleting files)

http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/11076/easyfind

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netbull Author

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Mar 20, 2013 6:05 AM in response to Paul_31

Thanks Paul....I have tried all sorts of things and have finally succeded with this "fix" from another forum participant! Without this advice I would never have found the elusive files: I cleaned up with Clean My Mac 2, a great app and well worth the 20 euros!

Huge thanks to both yourself and Flavio for the solutions! Cheers! Nick

polettix

Re: Several odd things - linked or not?

Mar 4, 2010 10:39 AM ( in response to Tompoes)

I think (hope!) I got it.

The little bas*ard is being launched by another Epson application, namely Epusp.app. This in turns gets launched as agent, its configuration file is in /Library/LaunchAgents/com.epson.Epusp.plist

The application itself is located close to Epudl.app, i.e. in /Library/Application\ Support/Epson/InkjetPrinter/Epusp.app (Epudl.app is in /Library/Application\ Support/Epson/InkjetPrinter/Epudl.app). The main program is /Library/Application\ Support/Epson/InkjetPrinter/Epusp.app/Contents/MacOS/Epusp and it's quite interesting to launch strings on it:

$ strings Epusp | grep Epudl
open /Library"/Application Support"/Epson/InkjetPrinter/Epudl.app
Epudl

(there is also a scary ' http://go.epson.com/redirect.aspx ' in the program...) So it seems that Epusp launches Epudl.

To disable it I used launchctl, which controls launchd:

$ launchctl unload -w /Library/LaunchAgents/com.epson.Epusp.plist

I also saw another Epson-related file in LaunchAgents, so I disabled it as well.

I hope this helps,

Flavio.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.2)

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