Background
I am trying to remove Sound Flower from my Mac. I found some relative files in 3 places. I removed 2 of them but the third one is in a folder that will not allow me to remove it.
Example
The file is in,
/Library/SystemMigration/History/Migration-1C2FCFF8-A394-409D-8DB3-E7885C0D5E81/QuarantineRoot/Library/StagedExtensions/Library/Extensions
The file name is,
Soundflower.kext
When I try to remove it like this,
rm -rf Soundflower.kext
I get this error!
rm: Soundflower.kext/Contents/_CodeSignature/CodeResources: Operation
not permitted rm: Soundflower.kext/Contents/_CodeSignature: Operation
not permitted rm: Soundflower.kext/Contents/MacOS/Soundflower:
Operation not permitted rm: Soundflower.kext/Contents/MacOS: Operation
not permitted rm: Soundflower.kext/Contents/Info.plist: Operation not
permitted rm: Soundflower.kext/Contents: Operation not permitted rm:
Soundflower.kext: Operation not permitted
I have tried, sudo, sudo su and adding the Terminal and iTerm to
Full Disk Access
settings in Security & Privacy in system settings. Once I added them I closed and restarted my terminals.
I still get the error.
Question
How do I remove this file from the path mentioned above?
Best Answer
You can remove the file without disabling SIP by booting to Recovery and then deleting the file in the terminal. The system disk is actually mounted read/write in Mojave Recovery, so the trick is that you have to refer to the drive by starting at /Volumes/yourdrivenamehere. So in this case the command to remove the file would be: