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Remove every trace of a program by reinstalling it
Authored by: mario_grgic on Wed, Jul 9 2008 at 5:34PM PDT
lsbom is helpful but I would not just delete every file it lists.
What I normally do, is execute

sudo find / -ctime 0 2>/dev/null

or

sudo find / -Btime 0 2>/dev/null

to find files that have changed after the installer was run. Then I save this for future reference, if I ever need to remove something manually.

But since it is so easy to clone a mac system drive, you could do that, boot and install something on the clone, test it and if you like it install it on the system drive. If not, nuke the clone or make a new one :D


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