I'm trying to uninstall Adobe Air on Lion.
All of my air apps won't load so I think an uninstall/reinstall will help.
I've opened the Adobe AIR uninstaller but nothing comes up. I can't figure out how to do this.
Does anyone know how I can uninstall Adobe Air?
Best Answer
To uninstall AdobeAIR by hand, quit any unnecessary applications (specially applications that might use AdobeAIR). Then delete the following files and folders.
/Applications/Adobe/Flash Player/AddIns/airappinstaller (alternatively remove the /Applications/Adobe folder - first checking that its sub-folders do not contain files other than AdobeAIR files.)
/Applications/Utilities/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app
/Applications/Utilities/Adobe AIR Uninstaller.app
/Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework
/Users/Shared/Library/Application Support/Adobe/AIR (alternatively remove the /Users/Shared/Library folder - first checking that its sub-folders do not contain files other than AdobeAIR files.)
The following files are in your Home Folder (represented by '~'). You can access this Library folder by holding down ⌥ while accessing the Finder menu Go > Library.
~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/AIR (alternatively remove the ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe folder - first checking that its sub-folders do not contain files other than AdobeAIR files.)
~/Library/Caches/com.adobe.air.ApplicationInstaller
~/Library/Caches/com.adobe.air.Installer
~/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.air.ApplicationInstaller.plist
~/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.air.ApplicationInstaller.plist.lockfile
~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/#Security/FlashPlayerTrust/air.1.0.trust.cfg
~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/www.macromedia.com/bin/airappinstaller
These files were found by scanning the file system before and after installing the latest version of AdobeAIR to see the file changes that were made.