How to completely uninstall Arc on Mac
Dragging Arc to the Trash removes the app itself, but its support files, caches and settings stay on your Mac. Here is where they are and how to remove all of them.
Arc keeps your profiles, spaces, tabs, history and saved passwords in ~/Library/Application Support/Arc, and its cache in ~/Library/Caches. Both stay behind if you only drag the app to the Trash.
Export or sync what you want to keep before removing the support folder: bookmarks, passwords and any pinned tabs you rely on. Quit Arc first.
company.thebrowser.BrowserRemove Arc by hand
- Quit Arc. If it has a menu bar icon or runs in the background, quit that too.
- Open the Applications folder and drag Arc to the Trash.
- In Finder, choose Go > Go to Folder (Shift-Command-G), paste each location below, and move what you find to the Trash. Not every location exists for every version.
- Empty the Trash, then restart your Mac so nothing from Arc is left running.
Where Arc keeps its files
/Applications/Arc.app~/Library/Application Support/Arc~/Library/Caches/company.thebrowser.Browser~/Library/Preferences/company.thebrowser.Browser.plist~/Library/Saved Application State/company.thebrowser.Browser.savedState~/Library/Containers/company.thebrowser.Browser~/Library/HTTPStorages/company.thebrowser.Browser~/Library/WebKit/company.thebrowser.Browser~/Library/Logs/Arc
Other places Arc uses
~/Library/Caches/ArcData~/Library/Caches/CloudKit/company.thebrowser.BrowserData~/Library/WebKit/company.thebrowser.BrowserData
The quick way
Diskzy finds Arc and the files listed here, shows the size of each one, and moves them to the Trash together. Files that another app also uses are left alone.
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