It is true that several times use faces difficulty when try to uninstall Little Snitch 4.2 from their Mac machine. It has been also seen that most of the time this application do not get uninstalled from system and remain in trash folder and still capture the storage space.

I cannot uninstall Little Snitch with the uninstall command in the installer.
I have NOT manually removed any pieces of Little Snitch.
I read relevant forums, and following instructions, I have downloaded the LS 2.0.1 installer, run the uninstall command (three times) with a restart between each try, and no effect, LS still installed and in control.
I have tried to install/upgrade my 2.0 version using the Little Snitch 2.0.1 installer (that I was using for the uninstall command), and THEN run the uninstall, STILL unsuccessful. The version of the Little Snitch Configuration application did not change after running the 2.01 installer, the LS config app stayed at version 2.0 (136).

Uninstall Little Snitch Mac

I am using OS X 10.4.10. Any advice would be appreciated.

In order to perform its duty, Little Snitch needs to add components to a very low level of the operating system, which also need to be registered and unregistered with the system. It is therefore not sufficient to just remove all of Little Snitch’s application bundles. Instead, Little Snitch Uninstaller must be run.

Little Snitch Uninstaller

The easiest way to open the Little Snitch Uninstaller is to drag Little Snitch Configuration from the Applications folder to the trash. Little Snitch’s background processes notice this and automatically start the uninstaller that is located in /Library/Little Snitch/Little Snitch Uninstaller.app.

Alternatively, the Little Snitch Uninstaller can be found in the Little Snitch .dmg disk image file, next to the Installer. If you don’t have the disk image at hand, you can always download the current version from our website.

The uninstallation process itself is straight forward, with only one option to choose: Whether you want to remove your rules and settings or not. After the process is finished, you must restart your computer.

If you enable the option to remove rules and settings, the Uninstaller deletes all your system-wide configuration and rules files (also any files from older Little Snitch installations), including the file that stores your license information, as well as the configuration files, rules files and log files for the user executing the Uninstaller.

List of paths

Little Snitch creates files under the following paths:

The “~” (tilde) sign refers to your user’s home folder.

Little Snitch Mac

Please note that the Uninstaller does more than move the application bundles to the trash and delete the configuration files. If you really want to remove Little Snitch completely from your system it is highly recommended to use the provided uninstallation application.

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