Complete uninstall / remove vscode (Mac)

Jim Kang
1 min readOct 30, 2017

while writing go this morning, I found that the wrong code are not under lined by red line This is really difficult for me and time consuming to keep writing. After 1 hour of wasting time trying to figure out what happened, I decide to kill it all and start again. Hope this will be helpful for those who wants to complete remove vscode on their mac

ATTENTION

please write down your extension lists, and settings (JSON) because you won’t be seeing this anymore (screen shot?)

remember to quit vscode first

Step1

remove settings and configs

rm -rf $HOME/Library/Application\ Support/Code
// add sudo if you needed to
// if you're using insider*
sudo rm -rf $HOME/Library/Application\ Support/Code\ -\ Insiders/

Step2

remove all the extensions

rm -rf $HOME/.vscode
// add sudo if you needed to
// if you're using insider*
sudo rm -rf $HOME/.vscode-insiders/

Step3

remove vscode from application

Step4

download vscode and install again ;)

*Note from Bryan Oliver, taken from comment

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Jim Kang
Jim Kang

Written by Jim Kang

love writing bit sized programming memo, acoustic guitarist, proud daddy of 5 and great listener (to my kids)

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