How to uninstall TrueCrypt 7.1a from my Mac cleanly? The instruction on TrueCrypt website is Windows-only.
MacOS – How to uninstall TrueCrypt
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Best Answer
The
TrueCrypt
installer is anmpkg
file that contains multiplepkg
files within it. You can right click the installer inFinder
, open package contents and see thepkg
files. Essentially, it installs MacFUSE and the TrueCrypt application. If you examine theTrueCrypt
mpkg
file with a tool like Pacifist, you'd see the list of files it installs and the locations.TrueCrypt
does not come with an uninstaller on OS X. But there are at least two ways to attempt to uninstall it completely:According to help on the
TrueCrypt
forum, uninstalling it is a matter of removing MacFuse and the TrueCrypt app (you need to have an account on that forum to see this post):OR
Try UninstallPKG to uninstall any application installed with a package (requires OS X 10.8 or later). I haven't used this, and do not know if it will be able to remove MacFUSE and TrueCrypt.
Once you've done this, check the list of files/locations reported by Pacifist, see if any of those are still around and remove them.