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How do I completely uninstall sublime text 2 on Mac

#1

Hi.

There is another post pending that has 39 views in a day but no one has responded.

Will Bond who wrote Package Control twitted this
“Try following this guide to purge and reinstall packagecontrol.io/docs/troublesh…”

With this link
packagecontrol.io/docs/troubles … d_Versions

But I tried these steps.

from The finder > Application
I moved Sublime Text 2 to the trash and emptied the trash.

But it really is not gone. From looking around with terminal I have found more directories with Sublime Text and
and Sublime Text 2 somehow finds all of the old settings and reconfigures everything the same way.

Sublime text has auto stored a Backup of all of my files here
/Users/myName/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 2/

I Need To Delete All of Sublime Text 2 !!

What are the Proper Steps and Commands to Delete - Remove all of these Directories and files on the Mac ?

We have to delete all of the files within a directory before we can delete the directory with
rmdir directoryname

Please help with this.

Thanks

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#2

sublimetext.com/docs/2/revert.html

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#3

Thank you for replying. Yes, prior to my post I did find that link.

This is not helpful to me.

I need to delete remove all of those directories and files.
I am on a Mac.

I can easily delete and remove the Settings directory because it has only a couple of files.

rm filename

To remove each file.

rmdir  directoryname

To remove each directory

The PACKAGES directory has a lot of subdirectories.
This would take an hour to delete as described above.

Please share the safe and logical way to delete these directories and files so that I can start fresh.
Something is corrupted within these files and I have spent hours trying to resolve this already.

Thanks

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#4

You know you can remove files via finder, yes?

If you are focused on terminal though, you could try

rm -rf ~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 2

(considering the name has spaces, i’d suggest to use Tab key to autocomplete pathnames)

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#5

Thank you ! thank you. I have not been using unix type commands for a while and I knew that this was easy :smile:

Is there a way to contact you directly if I have another fundamental question. ?

My email is shareyourpeace at gmail.com

If you email me with 24 hours that will be great because I I remove my email from this post.

I love direct answers :smile:

You were great and kind to respond.

I will go back and mark this as ‘correct’ ?

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#6

If you have issues with the editor, post them either on this forum or, if they are bugs, post them on Github.

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