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Uninstalling Songbird & Cleaning Up Profiles

Remove the App

It is generally easy on all platforms to remove the application itself:

  • Win32: Run the uninstaller (use Add/Remove Programs, etc).
  • MacOSX: Delete the application file from wherever you put it.
  • Linux: Delete the application folder from wherever you put it.

Remove the Profile and Cache

Uninstall the application does not, however, remove your Songbird profile.  Your profile is where add-ons are installed, and where your library database files are kept.  These aren't removed by the installer in case you reinstall Songbird again, or upgrade to a newer version later so as to retain your application settings, music library, and add-ons.  If you want to completely nuke Songbird out of orbit, then you'll want to clean up and remove the user profile and XUL cache as well.

Songbird 0.5 & Later Instructions (root folder is Songbird2)

Use these commands with care. Mistakes can be hazardous to your computer's health.
  • Win32: 
    rd /s "%appdata%\Songbird2"

(%appdata% is a system environment variable that will expand to your Application Data path)

  • MacOSX: 
    rm -Rf ~/Library/Caches/Songbird2
rm -Rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Songbird2
rm -f ~/Library/Preferences/org.songbirdnest.songbird.plist
  • Linux: 
    rm -rf ~/.songbird2

After you've uninstalled and cleaned everything up, you're ready to download and install the code or a nightly build.

Songbird 0.3 & 0.4

Follow the same instructions as above, except use "Songbird1" or ".songbird1" (as appropriate for your platform) instead of Songbird2/.songbird2

Use the Profile Manager

XULRunner includes a Profile Manager that will allow you to switch between different profiles and try a new fresh profile if you think something in your profile might be causing the error.

Switch to the installation folder and run Songbird -p to bring up the Profile Manager.

There's more information about using the Profile Manager on the Mozilla support site: http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile

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Chris says:
Some people may find that they have problems removing everything in some versions of windows where running the command above sometimes results in an error message. If so, find the appdata folder (you will need 'show hidden files and folders' to be selected found in 'tools -> options and then the view tab in windows explorer) There is both a local and a roaming version of the songbird data "C:\Users\"Username"\AppData\Local" and "C:\Users\"Username"\AppData\Roaming" delete both of these and you will be away.
Posted 16:08, 26 Jan 2009
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sauntimo says:
You can use the 'rd' command from a command prompt in windows; it won't necessarily work from a run box.

Start > Run > Command >

C:\>rd /s /q "%appdata%\Songbird2"


Posted 05:56, 24 Jul 2009
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