How to completely uninstall Obsidian on Mac
Dragging Obsidian 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.
Obsidian itself leaves little behind: a settings and cache folder in ~/Library/Application Support/obsidian and a preferences file. Your notes are not stored there.
Your vaults are ordinary folders of Markdown files wherever you created them, often in Documents or iCloud Drive. They are your data and are not removed with the app. Plugins, themes and per-vault settings are inside each vault, in its hidden .obsidian folder.
md.obsidianRemove Obsidian by hand
- Quit Obsidian. If it has a menu bar icon or runs in the background, quit that too.
- Open the Applications folder and drag Obsidian 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 Obsidian is left running.
Where Obsidian keeps its files
/Applications/Obsidian.app~/Library/Application Support/obsidian~/Library/Caches/md.obsidian~/Library/Preferences/md.obsidian.plist~/Library/Saved Application State/md.obsidian.savedState~/Library/Containers/md.obsidian~/Library/HTTPStorages/md.obsidian~/Library/WebKit/md.obsidian~/Library/Logs/obsidian
The quick way
Diskzy finds Obsidian 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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