Re: Complete uninstall of Mathematica 6/7/8 on a Mac
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- Subject: [mg114921] Re: Complete uninstall of Mathematica 6/7/8 on a Mac
- From: John Fultz <jfultz at wolfram.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 03:51:45 -0500 (EST)
- Reply-to: jfultz at wolfram.com
That's also in $UserBaseDirectory or $BaseDirectory (in the Licensing subdirectory). Sincerely, John Fultz jfultz at wolfram.com User Interface Group Wolfram Research, Inc. On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 02:35:08 -0500 (EST), Murray Eisenberg wrote: > What about the passfile from different versions on Mac -- how is that > handled? I've had to wrestle with that on Windows/PC. > > On 12/21/2010 12:19 AM, Vivek J. Joshi wrote: >> On Dec 19, 2010, at 11:38 PM, Loisn wrote: >> >>> Hello everyone! >>> >>> I promise you, I really did lots of google research before. >>> However I can't find any instructions as how to completely uninstall >>> Mathematica 6/7/8 on a mac. >>> >>> Is it just deleting the app, then ~/Library/Mathematica/ and /Library/ >>> Mathematica/ >>> or are there other files hidden in the system. >>> >> >> Yes, this should completely uninstall Mathematica. There are no other >> hidden files. >> >>> The reason, I'm trying to reinstall Mathematica 8 is because i'm >>> trying to ged rid of a bug, I couldn't find anything about either. >>> I can't open the "System Information" Panel from Mathematica, neither >>> from the menu, nor from the corresponding mathematica command. >>> >> >> You could always keep multiple versions of Mathematica by renaming >> Mathematica.app file to version specific naming scheme (e.g. >> Mathematica6.app, Mathematica7.app, Mathematica8.app). Also I would >> suggest to use version specific FE preference turned on. This way no >> Mathematica installs will interfere with each other. >> >> Vivek J. Joshi >> >> >>> Help would be greatly appreciated. >>> >>> Thanks in advance >>> >>> L.