De-Installing Applications ??

[Fritzables]

I have recently moved up to Capitan. All seems to be in order, until I de-installed iMovie.
As it is removed, I have App Store trying to update but never eventuating.
I tried to install it again so I could start all over again but it responded saying iMovie was already installed.

How can I remove any associated files and links to iMovie ?

Pete

 

[KALLT]

How did you remove the application?

 

[Wheelie4]

If you feel comfortable doing this you can use a free little program called "Easyfind" to find associated files/folders by doing a search for "iMovie".

 

[Fritzables]

How did you remove the application?

Hi KALLT,

I remove all my apps by going to the Applications folder and dragging into WasteBin.
Normally CleanMyMac will kick in and I leave it to that to finalise the job.

 

[Fritzables]

If you feel comfortable doing this you can use a free little program called "Easyfind" to find associated files/folders by doing a search for "iMovie".

Thanks Wheelie4,
Sounds good. I will take a look at this as well.

 

[KALLT]

Hi KALLT,

I remove all my apps by going to the Applications folder and dragging into WasteBin.
Normally CleanMyMac will kick in and I leave it to that to finalise the job.

Mac App Store applications should be deleted from the Launchpad (click and hold on the icon and select the cross icon).

 

[Fritzables]

Bugga....

OK, is there a way out of this for me?

 

[KALLT]

Bugga....

OK, is there a way out of this for me?

Install again from the App Store and delete properly. ;-P

 

[Wheelie4]

Install again from the App Store and delete properly. ;-P

Did you read the last of his original post?

 

[Fritzables]

Been down that road, not much happens. I click on Install, I then sign into the App Store and nothing occurs after that, so I guess it's pretty messed up. :-(

 

[KALLT]

Did you read the last of his original post?

Been down that road, not much happens. I click on Install, I then sign into the App Store and nothing occurs after that, so I guess it's pretty messed up. :-(

Ah, I overlooked that. Well, no worries. We’ll get there.

When you type the following into a Terminal prompt, does it have an entry for iMovie?

pkgutil --pkgs | grep apple

I suspect that there will be an entry like ‘com.apple.pkg.iMovie’. What we can try is removing that package there too, with the following command:

sudo pkgutil --forget com.apple.pkg.<insert name here>

Have you tried rebooting in between by the way? The App Store has some weird glitches every now and then.

 

[Fritzables]

Thanks KALLT,
I will do this as soon as I get back home from work this arvo...... stay tuned.

 

[Wheelie4]

Try deleting these two files. That should allow you to reinstall it.

 

[KALLT]

Try deleting these two files. That should allow you to reinstall it.

View attachment 593638

This is the equivalent of the command I just posted above. I’m not sure which approach is better, but I prefer the command-line utility for this.

 

[Fritzables]

G'Day All,

All up and running again.
Ended up just deleting the two files (plist & bom), reinstalled and away we go.
Thanks again everyone for the assistance.

Pete

 

[Wheelie4]

G'Day All,

All up and running again.
Ended up just deleting the two files (plist & bom), reinstalled and away we go.
Thanks again everyone for the assistance.

Pete

Glad to hear you got it going.