There are no uninstallers available for Macromedia Studio 8 products on Mac OS X, except for Fireworks 8 and Flash 8. To uninstall any of the Studio 8 software, manually delete the installed application files.

Following are examples of the files and folders to remove when uninstalling one of the Studio 8 products.

Note: Delete the files located in the Users folders for each user account that has run one of the Studio 8 applications.

Dreamweaver 8

• Applications > Macromedia Dreamweaver 8
• Users > username > Library > Application Support > Macromedia > Dreamweaver 8
• Users > username > Library > Preferences > Dreamweaver 8 Prefs
• Users > username > Library > Preferences > com.macromedia.Dreamweaver.plist

Fireworks 8

Note: You can use the Fireworks uninstaller (run the Fireworks 8 installer again and choose Uninstall).

To  manually uninstall Fireworks 8, remove the following files:

• Applications > Macromedia Fireworks 8
• Users > username > Library > Application Support > Macromedia > Fireworks 8
• Users > username > Library > Preferences > Fireworks 8
• Users > username > Library > Preferences > com.macromedia.fireworks.plist

For more details about uninstalling Fireworks 8 on Mac OS X, see How to uninstall Fireworks 8 on a Mac OS X computer (38af9543).

Flash 8

Note: You can use the Flash uninstaller (run the Flash 8 installer again and choose Uninstall).

To manually uninstall Flash 8, remove the following files:

• Applications > Macromedia Flash 8
• Users > username > Library > Application Support > Macromedia > Flash 8
• Users > username > Library > Preferences > Flash 8 MRU

For more details about uninstalling Flash 8 on Mac OS X, see Uninstall a custom Installed Flash 8 does not remove/delete all the folders (614bb5a9).

Contribute 3.11

• Applications > Macromedia Contribute 3
• Users > username > Library > Application Support > Macromedia > Contribute 3
• Users > username > Library > Preferences > Contribute 3 Preferences
• Users > username > Library > Preferences > com.macromedia.Contribute.plist
• Users > username > Library > Preferences > cbookmarks.html*

*Do not delete this file if you want to keep the bookmarks you saved in Contribute.

Additional files

Shared files

There are sometimes Macromedia files under the Shared User account. If you are reinstalling the application, you can leave these files alone. If you are doing a full or clean uninstall, you can remove these files.

Here is an example path for Flash 8:
Users > Shared > Library > Application Support > Macromedia > Flash 8

Extension Manager

It's not necessary to remove Macromedia Extension Manager unless there was a problem with the program, or you want to clean out all Macromedia-related files.

• Applications > Macromedia Extension Manager
• Users > username> Library > Preferences > Extension Manager Prefs
• Users > username > Library > Preferences > com.macromedia.ExtensionManager.plist

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