SOLVED:Using App Cleaner - but app keeps re-appearing - how do I delete it?

[pax-eterna]

I am using the app to remove a program, however it keeps re-populating the Macintosh HD after every reboot!

I first deleted the actual app using App Cleaner and it found about 5 folders..all good.

I then did a search on Macintosh HD to see if there was anything left behind and there is this folder in there that I keep deleting but it keeps coming back.

And when I run my music apps they keep re-scanning it, even though it's supposed to be gone! As you may have guessed it is a AU/VST app.

Where do apps store this stuff? I really want to completely get rid!

 

[HDFan]

it keeps re-populating the Macintosh HD after every reboot!

Can you provide more detail? Is the app re-appearing in Applications, or are some file actions that the app normally does still happening?

If you login as a different user, or in Safe Mode, does the same thing happen?

 

[pax-eterna]

Umm, no not really...it's a VST (well AU really) and I just ran the default install routine. It's the music apps (Reaper, Camleot etc) that keep scanning for it, and according to them it is still there and I can indeed open in the host app...

Haha, I am nowhere NEAR competent enough with MACs yet to start trying that stuff

Just thought there may have been some thing like in windows where you can enable "show hidden and system files"

 

[BrianBaughn]

After you delete the app via AppCleaner are you verifying that the component (AU) has been removed from /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components ? You can remove it manually with administrator verification.

 

[pax-eterna]

After you delete the app via AppCleaner are you verifying that the component (AU) has been removed from /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components ? You can remove it manually with administrator verification.

Thank you - exactly what I was asking in the OP -WHERE does apple store these - I knew there must be somewhere else!

EDIT: Bingo! That did it thanks 👍