How to completely uninstall vscode on mac

Question

I need to clean install vscode on my mac. I opened the terminal and removed the .vscode/ from ~. I also delete the Visual Studio Code.app/ from /. However, after deleting all that and download a fresh copy, I installed and open the editor and the editor remembered the last project I had. For me, that means that it is something else I need to delete but I can't find it. I went to the documentation but can't find anything about uninstalling the editor. Does anyone know how to completely uninstall VSCode from mac?

What I have tried

Following this instructions and new installation of vscode keeps remembering the last project I opened.

https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/getting_started/installation/uninstalling_xamarin/#Using_the_Uninstall_Script

Answer 1

Here are all the places where VSCode stores stuff on Mac OS X, besides the Visual Studio Code.app itself, which is in your Applications folder:

rm -fr ~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.VSCode.helper.plist 
rm -fr ~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.VSCode.plist 
rm -fr ~/Library/Caches/com.microsoft.VSCode
rm -fr ~/Library/Caches/com.microsoft.VSCode.ShipIt/
rm -fr ~/Library/Application\ Support/Code/
rm -fr ~/Library/Saved\ Application\ State/com.microsoft.VSCode.savedState/
rm -fr ~/.vscode/

Answer 2

The solution to my problem was to cd to the following path... /Users/<user>/Library/Application\ Support and delete the folder called Code. That folder contains all the setting and is not overwrite with a new installation. Looking through the entire file structure, VSCode name folder different. Sometimes folders are called .vscode/, or code/, or Visual Studio Code.app.

Answer 3

This worked for me ( VS Code 1.30 with MacOS - High Sierra 10.13.6 )

Step 1:

Close VS Code

Step 2:

rm -rf $HOME/Library/Application\ Support/Code

Step 3:

rm -rf $HOME/.vscode

Step 4:

Remove VSCode from application

Step5:

Reinstall VS Code if needed

Answer 4

Here is my approach:

1. Open finder
2. Click on Home icon(which has your username as label)
3. Click on Library Folder. Note Library folder may be hidden, so you will need to click on Shift+CMD+. to open hidden files and folders.
4. Click Application Support folder
5. Find Code folder beneath Application Support and delete it(You delete Code Folder of course)

Answer 5

If using a 3rd-party application is OK, check out App Cleaner.

It basically does the same thing as the other answer, but via a GUI and you don't have to manually remove all files/dirs one-by-one. Just drag VS Code from the Applications folder into App Cleaner, then it will find all the related files for you, and then you just have to click on the Remove button.

(Note: I did not make the app nor do I get anything out of it. I'm just a fan.)

Answer 6

To completely and clean uninstall there are several steps depending on the combinations of components you have installed/used. Check the official documentation from Microsoft at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/mac/uninstall