How to completely uninstall vscode on mac

Gilbert picture Gilbert · Mar 5, 2017 · Viewed 63.5k times · Source

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

j7nn7k picture j7nn7k · Nov 29, 2017

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/

Update (Feb 2020): There are potentially also hidden extension directories in your home directories. To get rid of everything make sure you look for those too. They start with .vscode-.

Please run this command with care. Maybe you want to keep extension directories.

rm -rf ~/.vscode*