How to uninstall Visual Studio for Mac Preview version?

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2016-11-17

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_{Thursday, November 17, 2016 5:13 AM | 3 votes}

Hi,

I just downloaded visual studio for mac preview and need to uninstall completely.

How can I do that?

Removing apps from Application folder only removing 600MB, but it installed around 10GB.

I kind of tried to follow this instruction, but not exactly same.

https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/getting_started/installation/uninstalling_xamarin/

Thanks.

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_{Thursday, November 17, 2016 9:53 AM}

Same issue here. I installed it hoping I can use for ASP.NET Core projects, but it doesn't support the json project files. So I guess VS Code is the only option for now.

_{Thursday, November 17, 2016 12:58 PM}

Hai, i also like that, but i might can help you.

you can try to delete

armeabi-v7a inside private > var > folder s5> (only 1 folder here) > t > 755aad8 (might be different in ur laptop) > armeabi-v7a.
go to Users > ur name > library > developer > Xamarin & all folder inside here
go to Users > ur name > library > cache > xamarin installer.

You can delete more than 10GB from there.

_{Friday, November 18, 2016 2:40 AM}

Hi Kevmando,

Welcome to the MSDN forum.

Refer to your description, your issue is more relates to the Xamarin Studio. Since our forum is to discuss Visual Studio WPF/SL Designer, Visual Studio Guidance Automation Toolkit, Developer Documentation and Help System, and Visual Studio Editor, I recommend you redirect to this appropriate forum: https://forums.xamarin.com/ for dedicated information, you will get a more professional support from there, thank you for your understanding.

Meanwhile, I found a similar issue: Complete uninstall on Mac, HELP!, Aco Kralj want to uninstall Xamarin Studio and all the belonging files, and the Xamarin forum support engineer Jeffrey Stedfast suggest to remove the following directories:

/Applications/Xamarin Studio.app

/Developer/MonoTouch

/Developer/MonoAndroid

/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework

/Library/Frameworks/Xamarin.Mac.framework

/Library/Frameworks/Xamarin.Android.framework

Locations in your user directory:

~/Library/Caches/Xamarin

~/Library/Caches/XamarinStudio-4.0

~/Library/Developer/Xamarin

~/Library/Developer/XamarinStudio

~/Library/Logs/Xamarin

~/Library/Logs/XamarinStudio-4.0

~/Library/Preferences/Xamarin

~/Library/Preferences/XamarinStudio-4.0

~/Library/Xamarin

~/Library/Xamarin.Mac

~/Library/MonoTouch

~/Library/MonoAndroid

~/Library/XamarinStudio-4.0

Best regards,

Sara

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_{Tuesday, November 22, 2016 6:51 AM}

Hi Kevmando,

Sorry to trouble you and I just want to confirm that your issue is solved or not. I saw you added several reply but removed them by yourself.

Best regards,

Sara

_{Monday, November 28, 2016 10:08 AM}

Hi Kevmando,

If your issue is not solved, you can check the installer log in ~/Library/Logs/XamarinInstaller/Universal as Sandy’s recommendand John Smith found the various things mainly in Library/Frameworks manually removed. All-in-all came to about 14Gb worth so basically most of it.

After that, you can have a look at the following folders and think about remove those files which modified date or created date is the same time when you installed the VS for Mac on your computer. (you can backup it before you remove them)

~/Library/Application Support/

~/Library/Preferences

~/Library/Caches

~/Library/Logs/

/Developer/MonoAndroid

Best regards,

Sara

_{Thursday, January 19, 2017 1:43 PM}

Hi,

Visual Studio Mac Preview is not the same as Xamarin Studio, it installs files to different locations, do you have a list of the locations for Visual Studio for Mac Preview?

Thanks,

_{Friday, January 20, 2017 6:04 AM}

Hi PAE-UK,

Welcome to the MSDN forum.

I found some other community members solved this issue through an application called OmniDiskSweeper, please have a look at this similar issue.

Shrijan Aryal: I was able to solve this big trouble. I downloaded and installed an application called OmniDiskSweeper, and scanned my disk. The app immediately displayed 16 gb of traces of the Visual Studio and I deleted them all to free up all the space. The link to the download is: this

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Best regards,

Sara

_{Wednesday, March 29, 2017 10:34 AM | 1 vote}

Current version Of MS VS takes 20GB on a macOs drive.

Please read the script to avoid removing shared stuff like Mono, NuGet & Visual Studio Code traces if it is needed by another app on your Mac.

Following script will free 20GB of space. Just put it in "uninstall.sh" file and run via terminal as "sudo ./uninstall.sh" (Do not forget to set to set execute permission on the file):

#!/bin/bash
# Complete uninstall Microsoft Visual Studio (Xamarin) including Mono and Microsoft NuGet traces:

# Uninstall Xamarin Studio
rm -rf "/Applications/Xamarin Studio.app"
rm -rf "/Applications/Xamarin Profiler.app"
rm -rf "/Applications/Xamarin Workbooks.app"
rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/XamarinStudio-*
rm -rf ~/Library/Logs/XamarinStudio-*
rm -rf ~/Library/Preferences/XamarinStudio-*
rm -rf ~/Library/XamarinStudio-*
rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/Xamarin
rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/VisualStudio
rm -rf ~/Library/Developer/Xamarin
rm -rf ~/Library/Developer/XamarinStudio
rm -rf ~/Library/Developer/VisualStudio
rm -rf ~/Library/Logs/Xamarin
rm -rf ~/Library/Logs/VisualStudio
rm -rf ~/Library/Preferences/Xamarin
rm -rf ~/Library/Preferences/VisualStudio
rm -rf ~/Library/Xamarin
rm -rf ~/Library/MonoAndroid
rm -rf ~/Library/XamarinStudio-*
rm -rf ~/Library/VisualStudio
rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/XamarinStudio-*
rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/VisualStudio
rm -rf ~/.templateengine/Visual\ Studio
rm -rf ~/.share/Xamarin
rm -rf ~/.local/share/Xamarin

sudo rm -f /private/var/db/receipts/com.xamarin.*
sudo rm -f /private/var/db/receipts/xamarin.*

# Uninstall Mono MDK
# You will also want to make sure that there are no other dependencies on Mono
sudo rm -rf /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework
sudo pkgutil --forget com.xamarin.mono-MDK.pkg
rm -rf ~/.local/share/MonoForAndroid
rm -rf ~/.config/.mono
rm -rf ~/.android

# Uninstall Xamarin.Android
sudo rm -rf /Developer/MonoDroid
sudo rm -rf /Library/Frameworks/Xamarin.Android.framework
sudo pkgutil --forget com.xamarin.android.pkg
rm -rf ~/Library/MonoAndroid

# Uninstall Xamarin.iOS
rm -rf ~/Library/MonoTouch
sudo rm -rf /Library/Frameworks/Xamarin.iOS.framework
sudo rm -rf /Developer/MonoTouch
sudo rm -rf /Developer/MonoAndroid
sudo pkgutil --forget com.xamarin.monotouch.pkg
sudo pkgutil --forget com.xamarin.xamarin-ios-build-host.pkg

## To Uninstall the Xamarin Build Host
sudo rm -rf "/Applications/Xamarin.iOS Build Host.app"

## To unload and remove the Xamarin Build Host launchd job
launchctl unload /Library/LaunchAgents/com.xamarin.mtvs.buildserver.plist
sudo rm -f /Library/LaunchAgents/com.xamarin.mtvs.buildserver.plist

# Uninstall Xamarin.Mac
sudo rm -rf /Library/Frameworks/Xamarin.Mac.framework
rm -rf ~/Library/Xamarin.Mac
sudo rm -rf /Library/Frameworks/Xamarin.Interactive.framework

# Uninstall Xamarin Installer
rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/XamarinInstaller/
rm -rf ~/Library/Logs/XamarinInstaller/
rm -rf ~/Library/Preferences/Xamarin/

# Uninstall Microsoft NuGet
rm -rf ~/.local/share/NuGet
rm -rf ~/.config/NuGet
rm -rf ~/.config/.NuGet
rm -rf ~/.NuGet

# Uninstall traces of visual studio code
rm -rf ~/.vscode

_{Thursday, March 30, 2017 5:34 AM}

Hi lvanquo,

Welcome to the MSDN forum.

Thanks for your sharing, it will help other community members to remove the remaining VS components on Mac computer.

Best regards,

Sara

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