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How to Uninstall iShowU Instant

Neil Clayton
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Uninstall

First; lets uninstall the SWB Audio Capture driver.

  1. Start the app
  2. Go to the app menu, and if enabled, choose "Uninstall SWB Audio Capture"
  3. Quit the app

If you have already unstalled the app, see: Uninstalling SWB Audio Capture

Delete the following app folders & App

  • /Users/<you>/Library/Application Support/iShowU Instant
  • /Users/<you>/Library/Preferences/com.shinywhitebox.iShowU-Instant.plist
  • Finally, delete the app from /Applications (move to Trash)

 

Where you see "/Users/<you>/..." above, means "insert your home folder name (username) here".

For me (my home folder is called "neil"), that means I would remove:

  • /Users/neil/Library/Application Support/iShowU Instant
  • (and repeat, for the second item as well, keeping in mind its in a slightly different location)

You can do this in Finder in a couple of ways:

Method One

  1. Open Finder
  2. Press Shift-CMD-. (shift-command-dot) to show hidden files & folders
  3. From there you'll see a greyed out Library folder, you can navigate down that to get to iShowU Instant, i.e:
    1. Click on Library
    2. Then click on Application Support
    3. Then click on iShowU Instant
    4. Then select and remove/trash everything in that folder.
  4. Press Shift-CMD-. again to hide hidden files/folders

Method Two

  1. Open Finder
  2. Press shift-cmd-g (wihch opens a dialog that lets you type a path in)
  3. Begin typing ~/Library/Application S...  (~ means 'my home folder')
  4. Note that Finder will begin autocompleting for you. It'll likely show "Users > neil > Library > Application Support > ..."
  5. iShow Instant may even appear on the list, and if it does, select it and press Enter

Finally, select everything in that folder and remove/trash it

 

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Comments

4 comments

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  • Dave Cortright

    I ran the trial on my Mac, decided not to purchase. Now SWB Audio Capture appears in my list of audio inputs. I re-downloaded the app and tried both the Uninstall SWB Audio Capture and Upgrade SWB Audio Capture Driver menu items. Both are no-ops for me. Super frustrating 🤬

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  • Neil Clayton

    That's odd. There should be an uninstall menu, in both of those apps. On Instant it's the app menu. On SWB Audio App, it's the left hand side drop down after you have clicked the menu bar to bring up the menu.

     

    Here's the pic, from SWB Audio App

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  • Dave Cortright

    I've got the menu items, but they don't do anything. the ... indicates some dialog should come up, but nothing does. And the items is still there in my input menu.

     

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  • Neil Clayton
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    You're right, it *should* pop up a dialog asking for more info.

    I should add, because this article is about uninstalling Instant itself, this conversation is about uninstalling the SWB Audio Capture driver specifically (shipped with Instant)

    It *might* be because the Paddle license dialog is showing.

    Hmm.

    If that's the case (and i'd need to check) you might be better off executing the commands under "Delete the following app folders & App" above.  Sorry it's a pain. I'm not trying to be a PITA, just unforseen circumstances (I did test the uninstall in iShowU, with this situation, when I put it in place, but OS updates over time may have changed behaviour)

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