Uninstalling Soundflower

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  Mike Dembski

  • April 23, 2015 12:16

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

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  Neil Clayton

  • April 23, 2015 20:48

  Did you also reboot?

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  Adam Pettit

  • May 07, 2015 21:51

  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

  • May 10, 2015 21:42

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

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  Thomas Durfee

  • July 19, 2015 02:58

  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

  • July 21, 2015 08:50

  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

  • July 30, 2016 01:11

  How do you reboot i am just asking

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  Neil B

  • October 20, 2016 18:16

  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

  • December 03, 2016 23:33

  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

  • August 24, 2017 00:54

  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

  • September 19, 2017 02:38
  • Edited

  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

  • May 23, 2018 01:05

  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

  • April 24, 2019 12:41

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

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  MikeRos

  • February 22, 2022 21:41

  Interesting!

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