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How can I remove/uninstall Soocial?
How can I uninstall/remove Soocial? It doesn't appear in my Applications folder.
Is there a preferences thing I can click on?
Is there a preferences thing I can click on?
I’m unsure
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Becuase Soocial is installed as a well behaving Preference Pane you can easily remove Soocial by right-clicking the Soocial icon in your System Preferences overview. Then choosing Remove "Soocial" Preference Pane:
Alternatively you can remove the file Soocial.prefPane in your ~/Library/PreferencePanes folder.
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Inappropriate?Becuase Soocial is installed as a well behaving Preference Pane you can easily remove Soocial by right-clicking the Soocial icon in your System Preferences overview. Then choosing Remove "Soocial" Preference Pane:
Alternatively you can remove the file Soocial.prefPane in your ~/Library/PreferencePanes folder.
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Inappropriate?Maybe it's worth considering to package our prefpane in some sort of installer that would give this information as part of the install process?
It would suck to make the install more complex than it is now though, I love the download & double click we have now. Can't get simpler than that.
I’m happy the uninstall is hassle-free
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It actually is mentioned in the install screen on our site, but it would be good to provide this information clearly in an easy to find place. I think our support section is easy enough to find though. Using an installer won't solve anything as users will have to find the uninstaller too. I think the help here is good enough(?). -
agree, you are right.
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What if there was a "Help" article that told you how to do it, but there was a link to that help article in the prefs pane.
It could be next to the "Off/On" switch in the prefs pane. It could say "I want to remove Soocial" and link to either the help article or the website. That way it's in a place that the user would look first, not go looking for as a second resort. -
Inappropriate?There are hidden files apart from those described. It's not true that it's all in the prefpane. I'm experiencing serious sync problems and they are possibly related to Soocial. I can't uninstall it properly.
One file is com.soocial.SoocialSync.plist, stored in the ~/Library/LaunchAgents folder. I found and removed it. After rebooting, I still get a message in Console saying "Soocial Sync client started (reported by "SoocialSyncTool[pid]" where pid changes often. Therefore, even after removing the pref pane and this plist file in "LaunchAgents" my computer still has Soocial. How on earth do I get rid of it?
I’m sick of not being able to uninstall this program
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I have serious problems too. After "uninstalling" the prefpane, I get lots of errors about database inconsistencies: http://getsatisfaction.com/soocial/to...
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Inappropriate?Hey Thomas. It is annoying f we leave stuff after you have removed Soocial from your Mac. That's not meant to be. I'll have our "Mac guy" take a look at it.2 Comments Add a comment
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What did the "Mac guy" say?
How can I COMPLETELY remove Soocial from Mac OS? -
Gernot is the MAC guy. We should have a new version ready soon that can do a proper uninstall.
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Inappropriate?Hi,
The LaunchAgent plist is just for starting the agent in a regular interval. The agent itself should be removed when you uninstall from the Preferences App. Nothing that does any real work should be left on your system after the uninstall.
But you're right, there should be a way to uninstall this list, too. We'll look into that. -
Inappropriate?Except the job is still left in there...
Here is how to remove it!
Open Terminal.app
launchctl <<-- puts you at the launchd% prompt
remove com.soocial.SoocialSync
exit
done!
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Thanks for that resnek! That helps the geeks (no offence I'm one too), still think we need an easier option though...
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Inappropriate?I still have a process called SoocialSyncTool
showing up in my console.
There are NO soocial items in launchctl.
How do I kill this SoocialSyncTool?
I’m frustrated
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