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Uninstalling Evernote (Mac)

By Robert | November 13, 2009

I’m documenting my uninstall steps for Evernote build 62233 on OS X Snow Leopard

I tried Evernote for a week. Despite the decent user experience, the system didn’t catch on, so I wanted to remove it. Turns out that it doesn’t have an uninstaller, not even a command-line uninstall script. Neither the support website nor the online documentation has any information about uninstalling.

Deleting the application itself does not remove everything. I still found right-click menus in Safari, and entries for Evernote in Growl notifications.

Thus, I’m sharing what I did to clean this up. This is what worked for me. I make no guarantees for you.

  1. Quit the app up in the menu bar
  2. Deleted the application from the Applications folder
  3. Rebooted
  4. Deleted all of the following in the order listed (and made sure Safari wasn’t running):


    5. ./Library/Internet Plug-Ins/EvernoteSafariClipperPlugin.webplugin/Contents/MacOS/EvernoteSafariClipperPlugin
    ./Library/Internet Plug-Ins/EvernoteSafariClipperPlugin.webplugin
    ./Library/Application Support/Growl/Tickets/Evernote.growlTicket
    ./Library/Application Support/Evernote/data/<12345>/Evernote.sql
    ./Library/Application Support/Evernote

Update: some dude from Evernote left a comment about one more file that needs removing. Thanks, Andrew!

Topics: OS X, Technology View Comments

  • Pspiliotis
    You can always use an app like AppCleaner or CleanApp or something similar. It's a lot easier
  • Ari
    Thank you!
  • Thanks, man, worked like a charm.
  • Your article should help many people in trouble.
  • Not to start a flame war, but I tried Evernote and wasn't impressed. While the OCR worked a bit better than the average, it wasn't enough value for their monthly fee, which for my notes was going to be upwards of $80/month. On top of that, I had a heck of a time trying to uninstall that darned software; I couldn't find instructions anywhere, and for some reason my previous searches for Evernote items didn't include some of the files above. Mahalo for the pointers and in helping us get on the right track with this.
  • Peter Blomqvist
    Hi,

    Silly question:

    Does it matter in which order you delete the items? For example, shouldn't you delete Evernote.sql before you delete Evernote? How does it work?

    Best regards,

    Peter (Confused amateur)

  • Peter: thanks for asking, I updated my post to show the order that I deleted the files.
  • sarag925
    wait, is this deleted from terminal?
  • @sarag925: yes, use Terminal.
  • Andrew McGeachie
    You'll also want to delete:

    ./Library/Caches/Metadata/com.evernote.Evernote

    which contains the spotlight metadata.
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