TechNote (Archived)

Uninstalling Studio 8 applications on Macintosh OS X

Issue

There are no uninstallers available for Macromedia Studio 8 products on Macintosh OS X, except for Fireworks 8 and Flash 8.

Solution

To uninstall any of the Studio 8 software, users can manually delete the installed application files.

Following are examples of the files and folders that should be removed when uninstalling one of the Studio 8 products.

Note: The files located in the Users folders may need to be deleted for each user account that has run one of the Studio 8 applications on the machine.

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").

For manual Fireworks 8 uninstall:

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 OS X, see How to uninstall Fireworks 8 on a Mac OS X computer (TechNote 38af9543).

Flash 8

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

Tomanually uninstall Flash 8 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 OS X, see Uninstall a custom Installed Flash 8 does not remove/delete all the folders (TechNote 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 may also be Macromedia files under the Shared User account. If reinstalling the application, you can leave these files alone. If 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

You would typically only need to uninstall the Macromedia Extension Manager if there was a problem with the program, or you wanted 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