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How to fully uninstall Razer Synapse 2 on OS X (10.11-10.13) (El Capitan, Sierra, High Sierra) without using Razer's official uninstall tool
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# How to uninstall Razer Synapse 2 ( https://www.razerzone.com/synapse-2 ) | |
# on OS X (10.11-10.13) (El Capitan, Sierra, High Sierra) | |
# without using Razer's official uninstall tool. | |
# Tested on OS X 10.11.5 in July 2016. | |
# Edited with additional steps for later OS X versions, | |
# contributed by commenters on this gist. | |
# Step 1: In your terminal: stop and remove launch agents | |
launchctl remove com.razer.rzupdater | |
launchctl remove com.razerzone.rzdeviceengine | |
sudo rm /Library/LaunchAgents/com.razer.rzupdater.plist | |
sudo rm /Library/LaunchAgents/com.razerzone.rzdeviceengine.plist | |
# Step 2: Remove HID kernel extension. | |
sudo rm -Rf /System/Library/Extensions/RazerHid.kext | |
# OS X High Sierra: (Thanks to @DanThomson) | |
sudo rm -Rf /Library/Extensions/RazerHid.kext | |
# Step 3: Manually delete Razer Synapse app from Applications in Finder | |
# Step 4: Delete Razer files from "Application Support" folders: | |
sudo rm -rf /Library/Application\ Support/Razer/ | |
rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Razer/ | |
# Step 5: Synapse sometimes leaves a certificate installed in your Keychain. | |
# To remove it, open Keychain Access and click on My Certificates. | |
# The certificate will be called Razer USA Ltd, delete it. (Thanks to @MTCoster) | |
# There might an item called RAZER_KEYCHAIN_ACCESS. No certificate, | |
# but I suppose if you want to get rid of EVERYTHING Razer, | |
# you may as well go ahead and delete that too. (Thanks to @blueExcess) | |
# Step 6: Restart your Mac. | |
# Expected results: | |
# - The Razer icon should be gone from the OS X menu bar now, and also not pop up sporadically either | |
# - The two processes "RzDeviceEngine" and "RzUpdater" should not be running when you check ActivityMonitor |
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