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How to Completely Uninstall MongoDB Community on macOS Catalina

From this post on the IntelliPaat forum.

This guide assumes that MongoDB Community was installed on macOS Catalina using brew install [email protected]. Refer to MongoDB Manual: Install on MacOS for installation instructions.

Commands to Uninstall

launchctl list | grep mongo 

launchctl remove homebrew.mxcl.mongodb 

pkill -f mongod 

brew uninstall mongodb-community

Commands to remove settings and data:

  • settings: rm -r /usr/local/etc/mongod.conf
  • logs: rm -r /usr/local/var/log/mongodb
  • data: rm -r /usr/local/var/mongodb
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Aziz87 commented Oct 24, 2024

thank you! Work on m1

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