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Message 51736 - Posted: 15 Dec 2013, 23:17:05 UTC

I want to uninstall BOINC (7.2.33) from my office Mac (OS X 10.9) but I just can not find any way to do this.
There is no uninstaller. Not in the .dmg and not in the installer software, as the documentation says.
It really is frustrating and as the installation added user groups and permissions I don't want to mess around with this an really feel trapped.
Thanks for any helping suggestions!
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Message 51748 - Posted: 16 Dec 2013, 23:01:09 UTC - in response to Message 51736.  

There is no .dmg; it is a zip file which your web browser should have automatically expanded into a folder named boinc_7.2.33_macOSX_i686. Inside that folder is another folder "extras" which contains an application named Uninstall BOINC.

If you read the ReadMe,rtf file which came with the BOINC installer and is in the outer folder, the last sentence is:
To completely remove (uninstall) BOINC from your Macintosh, run the Uninstall BOINC application which is included with the installer.
Charlie Fenton
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