Can't Uninstall Little Snitch

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How To Uninstall Little Snitch 4 on Mac? It's a command line package manager, which works great until I upgrade to macOS Mojave. I can't find how to uninstall it from my Mac. Can I do it by removing the whole /usr/local? It seems Homebrew was installed somewhere in that directory. Sep 23, 2012  Anyone ever use Hands Off, the alternative to Little Snitch? I'm liking their feature list compared to Little Snitch, but I can't find any reviews for Hands Off. I'm going to uninstall.

Little Snitch for Mac OS is a great little gem to protect your data from being sent out to third-party apps through the Internet. For instance, you can use Little Snitch to hamper the outgoing traffic and block websites and apps that require access to the data stored on your Mac.

In other words, Little Snitch provides flexible options to grant or block permissions to Mac applications.

However, if you want to uninstall Little Snitch from your Mac, for you’ve your own reasons, then keep reading further.

Remove Little Snitch App Completely From Mac OS

Dragging the application to Trash folder will remove the application, but, unfortunately, not all the core files of Little Snitch are deleted and the files still reside on your Mac.

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Also, All-in-one installers like AppZapper and AppCleaner may often fall short with complex applications. But if you have an app cleaner installed on your Mac, give it a shot, otherwise use the default Little Snitch uninstaller.

To make the removal procedure easier, Little Snitch has its own uninstaller that can be found using the following steps:

  1. Open Finder, search for Little Snitch DMG file.
  2. Click on Little Snitch Installer — yes, installer!
  3. A window pops up with two options: Uninstall and Install.
  4. Choose Uninstall to remove Little Snitch from Mac. To install the app again, click on Install.

Pretty easy, right? But you haven’t won yet. There are some user files that needs to be deleted to permanently remove Little Snitch from your computer.

So, if you wish to completely remove the stored preference on your Mac, then delete the following files and folders, as mentioned at Obdev:

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/Library/Application Support/Objective Development/Little Snitch/
~/Library/Application Support/Little Snitch/
~/Library/Preferences/at.obdev.LittleSnitchConfiguration.plist
~/Library/Preferences/at.obdev.LittleSnitchNetworkMonitor.plist
~/Library/Preferences/at.obdev.LittleSnitchInstaller.plist
The “~” tilde sign refers to your home folder.

How To Uninstall Little Snitch

That’s it! All the redundant files of Little Snitch are gone. In case you want to reinstall the app, you have to launch the .DMG file again.

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In order to perform its duty, Little Snitch needs to add components to a very low level of the operating system, which also need to be registered and unregistered with the system. It is therefore not sufficient to just remove all of Little Snitch’s application bundles. Instead, Little Snitch Uninstaller must be run.

Little Snitch Uninstaller

The easiest way to open the Little Snitch Uninstaller is to drag Little Snitch Configuration from the Applications folder to the trash. Little Snitch’s background processes notice this and automatically start the uninstaller that is located in /Library/Little Snitch/Little Snitch Uninstaller.app.

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Alternatively, the Little Snitch Uninstaller can be found in the Little Snitch .dmg disk image file, next to the Installer. If you don’t have the disk image at hand, you can always download the current version from our website.

The uninstallation process itself is straight forward, with only one option to choose: Whether you want to remove your rules and settings or not. After the process is finished, you must restart your computer.

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If you enable the option to remove rules and settings, the Uninstaller deletes all your system-wide configuration and rules files (also any files from older Little Snitch installations), including the file that stores your license information, as well as the configuration files, rules files and log files for the user executing the Uninstaller.

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List of paths

Little Snitch creates files under the following paths:

The “~” (tilde) sign refers to your user’s home folder.

Please note that the Uninstaller does more than move the application bundles to the trash and delete the configuration files. If you really want to remove Little Snitch completely from your system it is highly recommended to use the provided uninstallation application.

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