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ashu17706 / logitech-complete-uninstall.md
Last active September 22, 2026 10:38
Complete guide to uninstalling Logitech Options+ from macOS — what it secretly installs, how to find it, and how to nuke every trace

The maintained version of this guide now lives at zero8.dev/blog/completely-uninstall-logitech-options-plus-macos — same cleanup, with fixes (this gist originally had a ~-inside-quotes bug on the SentryCrash line, corrected below) and kept up to date as Logitech moves paths around.

Logitech Options+ on macOS: What It Installs, Why It's Excessive, and How to Completely Remove It

The Problem

Logitech Options+ (and its predecessor Logitech Options) installs far more than a mouse/keyboard driver. For what should be a simple button remapping tool, it drops files across 6+ system directories, installs background daemons, phones home via crash reporting (Sentry), and even bundles an AI Prompt Builder — none of which you asked for.

Here's what's actually running on your Mac after a "simple" Logitech Options+ install:

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chrowe / manual_steps.md
Last active February 12, 2017 04:13
Pi Ansible
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michaelwills / Inno DB ibdata resizing
Last active August 29, 2015 14:04
Inno DB ibdata resizing to reclaim data
# Reducing InnoDB ibdata file, converting from monolithic file to individual files per database. See:
# http://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/8982/what-is-the-best-way-to-reduce-the-size-of-ibdata-in-mysql
# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3456159/how-to-shrink-purge-ibdata1-file-in-mysql
# http://vitobotta.com/smarter-faster-backups-restores-mysql-databases-with-mysqldump/#sthash.VCU3nJHa.SldueNKm.dpbs
# user, password, host, port opts stored in ~/.my.cnf
# dump databases to one file, streamed compression
/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysqldump --all-databases --routines --opt --verbose | gzip > backup.sql.gz
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chrowe / drush dq.txt
Last active December 16, 2015 23:59
My drush qd template
drush qd mahr-content-import admin_menu module_filter devel fpa views views_bulk_operations ctools features strongarm diff date entity entityreference feeds feeds_tamper job_scheduler extlink --yes
drush en module_filter fpa views_ui devel_generate admin_menu_toolbar extlink feeds_tamper feeds_ui features strongarm date diff --yes
drush dis toolbar overlay --yes