Clean Uninstallation about iina

[hugepower]

I found a solution using AppCleaner, a free tool that can remove any app and its associated files from your Mac. You can download it from https://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/ It also supports uninstalling other apps that are not listed in the Applications folder. Just drag and drop the app icon to AppCleaner and it will do the rest. Hope this helps!

[low-batt]

Thanks @hugepower for posting the screen shot showing those directories.

If IINA logging was ever enabled in IINA's settings under the Advanced tab then there will be log files in the directory /Library/Logs/com.colliderli.iina. My guess is that AppCleaner would have found that directory if @hugepower had enabled logging.

I'm expecting you will also have this file:
~/Library/Application Support/com.apple.sharedfilelist/com.apple.LSSharedFileList.ApplicationRecentDocuments/com.colliderli.iina.sfl2

With this file we are now into a "grey" area. This file does not "belong" to IINA. This file belongs to sharedfilelistd, a macOS daemon. This is where macOS stores the list of recently opened documents on behalf of IINA. This is the list you see in IINA's welcome window and in the Open Recent menu item. Possibly macOS will cleanup this file when an application is deleted.

There are many more places like this where macOS stores knowledge of an application. I'm not sure how fast macOS cleans up all of its databases that "know" about an application.

[low-batt]

Yes, I believe so.

Another directory I forgot to mention is ~/.config/mpv/. That is the default directory for mpv configuration. Use of this directory can be enabled on the IINA setting's Advanced tab. IINA does not create this directory. It is up to you to create it if you want IINA to use mpv configuration files.

[herry23xet]

@hugepower Thx! But does AppCleaner really delete everything? I've often read that AppCleaner still leaves remnants behind.

[herry23xet]

Thank you, then I can really assume that AppCleaner finds everything that only explicitly belongs to IINA and is not "shared" or is in the "grey" area. That's good to know!