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):


./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!

After doing so, I found that restarting, shutting down, or logging-out took way longer than expected.

Running console, I found the following message shortly after the shutdown log that looked suspicious:

5/3/08 11:04:20 AM com.apple.launchctl.System[2] launchctl: Please convert the following to launchd: /etc/mach_init.d/dashboardadvisoryd.plist


Turns out I needed to remove an incompatible dashboard extension (in my case it was iStat Pro). Shutdowns, reboots, and logouts are now back to normal again :D

The Razer website provides the following instructions for removing the RazerPro drivers from one’s machine:

There are 2 methods to uninstall the drivers. Note that the below does not remove the SystemLoginItem entry in the system preference.

1. Run the uninstall.sh file that is included in the driver package.
2. Launch the Terminal Application. Copy and paste the below commands one at a time.
   sudo rm -r /System/Library/Extensions/RazerPRODriver.kext
sudo rm -r "/Library/Application Support/Razer/RazerPRODaemon.app"
sudo rm -r /Library/PreferencePanes/RazerPRO.prefPane
rm -f ~/Library/Preferences/com.razer.PRO.plist
sudo rm -r /Library/Receipts/Razer\ PRO.pkg

While that cleaned up the important stuff, and allowed me to use SteerMouse again, I noticed that the RazerPRODaemon was still running…

2055 ?? 0:00.05 /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/RazerPRODaemon.app/Contents/MacOS/RazerPRODaemon


Killing the process won’t work (the daemon will launch again). I needed to remove a lingering .plist file:

sudo rm -r /Library/LaunchAgents/com.razer.PRO.RazerPRODaemon.plist


After killing the daemon, I removed the whole app:

sudo rm -r /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/RazerPRODaemon.app


That did the trick. Perhaps someone out there will find this teensy tidbit of information useful!