Uninstall FUSE?

[Damien Butt]

Hi,

I have an issue with this application and I need to remove it completely from my machine.

I can't remember what I had this installed for but the version was very out of date. V2.0.3. I updated to macOS High Sierra and I am getting three popups on every startup giving me errors about FUSE. I have tried to remove it but I am still getting these popups. 

Is there an "Uninstaller" which will completely remove all traces on the application?

Thanks,

Damien

[Sam Moffatt]

Hi Damien,

There should be a preference pane you can use to uninstall the app and it’s been a while but there should be either a script or app to uninstall OSXFUSE inside the bundle at /Library/Filesystems/osxfuse.fs as well. This might be a little unintuitive but if you don’t have the prefpane, try installing the latest version and then using it to uninstall (check out the FAQ under section 2.3, https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/wiki/FAQ)

There might also be something re-installing OSXFUSE for you as well that might be thwarting your efforts to remove it. How have you been removing it so far?

Cheers,

Sam

Sam Moffatt
http://pasamio.id.au

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[Benjamin Fleischer]

Hi Damien,

I believe you are referring to MacFUSE. MacFUSE is the predecessor of FUSE for macOS (osxfuse), but the MacFUSE project died well over six years ago. I don’t don’t know of any standalone uninstaller for MacFUSE.

Like Sam wrote, you can try to press the uninstall Button in the MacFUSE preference pane but I’m not sure if it will work on High Sierra. MacFUSE was designed for Mac OS X 10.5 and a lot has changed since then. If the uninstaller does not work for you I can send you a list of files you would need to remove manually. 

Regards,

Benjamin

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[Damien Butt]

Hi,

Thank you. Yes. Please could you give me a list of file and locations to remove. That would be very helpful. 

I tried the "Remove" button from the preferences pane but it didn't seem to do much. I have now removed it from the preferences pane as well. But I still get these error popups. Clearly something is trying to run at boot and I just need to find that and remove it.

Damien

[Benjamin Fleischer]

You can remove MacFUSE by running the following commands in Terminal (or by manually removing the following files). As always, be careful when running commands in Terminal.

sudo rm -rf "/Library/Application Support/Developer/Shared/Xcode/Project Templates/MacFUSE"
sudo rm -rf "/Library/Filesystems/fusefs.fs"
sudo rm -rf "/Library/Frameworks/MacFUSE.framework"
sudo rm -rf "/Library/PreferencePanes/MacFUSE.prefPane"
sudo rm -f "/Library/Preferences/com.google.macfuse.plist"
sudo rm -rf "/usr/local/include/fuse"
sudo rm -f "/usr/local/include/fuse.h"
sudo rm -f "/usr/local/lib/libfuse.0.dylib"
sudo rm -f "/usr/local/lib/libfuse.2.7.3.dylib"
sudo rm -f "/usr/local/lib/libfuse.2.dylib"
sudo rm -f "/usr/local/lib/libfuse.dylib"
sudo rm -f "/usr/local/lib/libfuse.la"
sudo rm -f "/usr/local/lib/libfuse_ino64.2.7.3.dylib"
sudo rm -f "/usr/local/lib/libfuse_ino64.2.dylib"
sudo rm -f "/usr/local/lib/libfuse_ino64.dylib"
sudo rm -f "/usr/local/lib/libfuse_ino64.la"
sudo rm -f "/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/fuse.pc"

sudo rm -rf "/Library/Receipts/MacFUSE.pkg"
sudo rm -rf "/Library/Receipts/MacFUSE Core.pkg"
pkgutil --forget "com.google.macfuse"
pkgutil --forget "com.google.macfuse.core"

Please note that MacFUSE is a passive system component. The errors you are seeing when you start your Mac are an indication that "something" is trying to mount a MacFUSE volume. This something could be an application that is started automatically when you log in or maybe an old version of NTFS-3G. You might want to remove that application, too.

Regards,

Benjamin