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Uninstalling Soundflower

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  • Mike Dembski

    I followed the instructions and Soundflower is still an option for Airplay.

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  • Neil Clayton

    Did you also reboot?

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  • Adam Pettit

    I have followed the instructions, rebooted, and deleted the audio plist files in /Library/Preferences.

    Sound flower files are nowhere to be found on my computer, but it still shows up in my Sound Preferences and Audio Midi Setup.

    How do I get rid of these options in the drop down list?

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  • Robert Bullen

    Can you please send this to support@shinywhitebox.com and I can help you from there

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  • Thomas Durfee

    Adam, do you have something like SplashTop Streamer installed? If I recall, it uses SoundFlower for audio over VNC.

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  • Neil Clayton

    Adam, if you find out what it was that caused the issue, let us know. It'd be useful to document this article with it.

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  • Pokemonruels

    How do you reboot i am just asking

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  • Neil B

    Just to make this clear, when you double click on the Uninstall Soundflower script, a dialog box opens up. MAKE SURE you press the Play icon on the top of this window to run the script. I made the mistake of assuming that merely opening that window uninstalled Soundflower. It will ask for administrator's password, before running the uninstall. Worked like a charm for me!

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  • Mihail Sestakov

    Folks,

    The above procedure did not work for me, I could still see Soundflower in System Preferences / Sound, Output tab.

    Scanning my hard drive I've found that I've used a different installer, "Soundflower-2.0b2.dmg". I've found it on GitHub, link https://github.com/mattingalls/Soundflower/releases, under the subhead Downloads - "Soundflower-2.0b2.dmg". The Uninstall scrip is:
    on run
    do shell script "sudo rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/Soundflower.kext" with administrator privileges
    do shell script "sudo rm -rf /Library/Extensions/Soundflower.kext" with administrator privileges
    do shell script "sudo rm -rf /Library/Receipts/Soundflower*" with administrator privileges
    do shell script "sudo rm -rf /var/db/receipts/com.cycling74.soundflower.*" with administrator privileges
    do shell script "sudo rm -rf /Applications/Soundflower" with administrator privileges
    "Done!"
    end run

    You can see the extra line compared to the Uninstaller for Soundflower 1.6.6b:
    do shell script "sudo rm -rf /Library/Extensions/Soundflower.kext" with administrator privileges

    So *after* following Neil Clayton instructions above, if you're still seeing Sunflower in System Preferences / Sound, Output tab, try executing the above command on it own:
    - Open Terminal app
    - type in: sudo rm -rf /Library/Extensions/Soundflower.kext
    - type your password when prompted.

    Example session dump:
    Last login: Sun Dec 4 10:07:59 on console
    33-82-114-61:~ mihail$ sudo rm -rf /Library/Extensions/Soundflower.kext
    Password:
    33-82-114-61:~ mihail$

    Cheers,
    Mihail

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  • Philip Darbyshire

    Mihail's advies to Open Terminal app
    - type in: sudo rm -rf /Library/Extensions/Soundflower.kext
    - type your password when prompted.

    FINALLY fixed this issue. At last. Many thanks indeed

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  • Steven

    Ditto. Mihail's solution was the only one that worked for me. I tried everything above that to no avail. Soundflower.kext was not appearing in my 'extensions' folder in Finder, though the "mdfind -name Soundflower.kext" command (shown above) showed it was there.

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  • Rob Robinett

    In High Sierra I can't remove it:

    rob@Robs-MBP:/Users/rob> sudo rm -rf `mdfind -name Soundflower.kext`
    Password:
    rm: /Library/StagedExtensions/Library/Extensions/Soundflower.kext/Contents/_CodeSignature/CodeResources: Operation not permitted
    rm: /Library/StagedExtensions/Library/Extensions/Soundflower.kext/Contents/_CodeSignature: Operation not permitted
    rm: /Library/StagedExtensions/Library/Extensions/Soundflower.kext/Contents/MacOS/Soundflower: Operation not permitted
    rm: /Library/StagedExtensions/Library/Extensions/Soundflower.kext/Contents/MacOS: Operation not permitted
    rm: /Library/StagedExtensions/Library/Extensions/Soundflower.kext/Contents/Info.plist: Operation not permitted
    rm: /Library/StagedExtensions/Library/Extensions/Soundflower.kext/Contents: Operation not permitted
    rm: /Library/StagedExtensions/Library/Extensions/Soundflower.kext: Operation not permitted
    rob@Robs-MBP:/Users/rob>

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  • Mostafa Ali Mohanna

    thanks a lot for your help ^_^ .. i'm so happy to see your site

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  • MikeRos

    Interesting!

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  • Fernando Miguel Couto

    Folks, search no more. Just follow the procedures above. It is not totally clear, as far as how you get to the hidden Library files, but it does the trick. 

    In Finder, just copy/paste the paths shown above and you will see clearly that the darn file is there.
    From then on, just copy the scripts by Mihail Sestakov (all of them, to make sure), execute them and the magic is done. 

    This issue has haunted me for nearly 5 years now. Got fixed today. Thank you all

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  • Lesana Krsic

    @Mihail Sestakov Scanning my hard drive I've found that I've used a different installer, "Soundflower-2.0b2.dmg". I've found it on GitHub, link https://github.com/mattingalls/Soundflower/website/releases, under the subhead Downloads - "Soundflower-2.0b2.dmg".

    Thanks so much for this tutorial and code! It was really clear and helpful. I definitely wouldn't have been able to figure out how to uninstall Soundflower without this. I was literally "breaking my head" on this!

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  • Annonie_Moose

    Thanks soooo much for this!

    I did have a couple issues, but they were entirely self-inflicted. (It helps if you haven't deleted the Script Editor or the Audio Midi Setup!) So... after putting them back, poof! No more soundflower. Piece of cake!

    I now use BlackHole for the same purpose, as it seems to have a better reputation. And I used the Midi Setup to create a dual output device, so I can listen while recording my screen--what a concept.

    Woohoo, and THANKS AGAIN!

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