The online method of paying corporate taxes in my county requires the use of the Adobe Reader plugin for Safari. Yuck! So I install and uninstall the whole mess every year. This post is to document what I did this time.
- Turn off MozyHome (offsite backup) and Time Machine (site backup). These will slow down my find below if they happen to fire off in the middle of running that command.
- Throw Adobe Reader into Trash.
- From Terminal run this: sudo find / -name '*[Aa][Dd][Oo][Bb][Ee]*'
- Manually pick through that list of files and throw them in Trash, too. But be careful! Some applications have Adobe libraries that I don't want trashed. Also, I certainly don't want to accidentally delete sadobeauties768.jpg. See list of files that I actually removed below.
- Turn Time Machine and Mozy Home back on.
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin
/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.acrobat.pdfviewer.plist
/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.acrobat.pdfviewer.plist.lockfile
/Users/mylogin/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Acrobat
/Users/mylogin/Library/Logs/Adobe
/Users/mylogin/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.Reader.plist
/Users/mylogin/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.Reader.plist.lockfile
Keep in mind, I am still grudgingly forced to keep the Adobe Flash plugin installed for Safari. This means I can't blindly delete everything named "Adobe".
I'm currently running OS X 10.7.5 and the version of Adobe Reader I uninstalled was 10.1.4.
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