Uninstall Little Snitch Terminal

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Version: 2.50.01
File Size: 3.8M
Systems: Mac OS X 10.9+

Launch MacRemover in the dock or Launchpad, select Little Snitch appearing on the interface, and click Run Analysis button to proceed. Review Little Snitch files or folders, click Complete Uninstall button and then click Yes in the pup-up dialog box to confirm Little Snitch removal. However when I run the script locally on a test machine with Little Snitch running, Terminal returns 'No matching processes belonging to you were found'. I can see the Little Snitch UIAgent and Little Snitch Network Monitor processes in Activity Monitor running under the same account as the script is being executed from.

This article is teaching you how to correctly remove Little Snitch in Mac OS X. Before performing the removal, let’s get to know more about Mac OS X, so that we will be able to safely, completely remove Little Snitch.

Over the years, Mac OS has never given up on the desktop market. Evolved from Mac OS 9 to X, it went through eleven significant upgrades -- Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks, and Yosemite, becoming more and more adaptive and user-friendly. The El Capitandu version in particular, fixed many bugs while a lot of new features have been added, and system security has been greatly enhanced as well. From these improvements, more and more developers find business opportunities and engage in designing apps for Mac. However, due to the distinctiveness of Mac OS X, its uninstallation can be quite distinctive to former Windows users, who might need a bit more operating system knowledge instead of simply dropping an app down the Trash.

So, how should we correctly, completely remove Little Snitch?

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Generally, Manual Removal Requires the Following Steps:

Step 1: open the Activity Monitor, and search for the processes related to Little Snitch, then quit them one by one.

Step 2: Check whether Little Snitch has its own built-in uninstaller. If it does, we use it. How to find its uninstaller?

2.1 Go to Find -> Go -> Application
2.2 Locate Little Snitch, right-click on it then select Show Package Contents
2.3 See if there is any file with “uninstall” or “remove” in its name, which should be the built-in uninstaller of an application. And we run it to activate the removal.

Step 3: If Little Snitch doesn’t have its own uninstaller or you can’t find it, the operations can be a bit complicated.

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3.1 In the upper-right corner of your screen, click the Magnifier icon to open Spotlight Search. Type “Little Snitch” in the box, and you will see the related folder(s)/file(s). According to the result, respectively drag it (them) to the Trash.
3.2 To fully remove Little Snitch, we need to check the following folders for its remaining files, whose name should contain “Little Snitch.”

3.2.1 Application Support
3.2.2 Caches
3.2.3 Containers
3.2.4 Frameworks
3.2.5 Logs
3.2.6 Preferences
3.2.7 Saved Application State
3.2.8 WebKit

3.3 Some files of Little Snitch could be set as “Read only”, so to find those files we shall change the settings to “Everyone > Read & Write.”

Performing the above steps should perfectly remove Little Snitch.

Although the manual uninstallation is able to remove the apps you don’t want, it may take much time, and not everyone is tech-savvy enough to do that without involving in possible risks, for example, the mistaken deletion that leads to system crash.

To spare yourself the unsafe elements, you might as well try out a professional third-part tool, like MacRemover -- a small-sized but powerful Mac App uninstaller that supports the One Click Remove feature.

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