Forum Discussion
deleting old installs of 1P
Good morning, as I said, these screen shots are not from the Applications folder. they are screen shots of About This Mac>Overview>System Report>Software>Installations. This screen shot is of 8 installations of 1Password just hanging around somewhere in my computer. You can probably see the same thing on your machines. There appears to be no access to the installs and it would be so great if I could just grab them by some means and drag them to the trash. You can read Ag-tommy's post. The screen shot I posted as an answer is the applications folder showing 3 applications called 1 Password, but they are not all the same. The top one is V7.8.7 application. That one I don't want to touch. The middle one is an App Store download dated 2/4/2020. The bottom one that says Troubleshooting dates from 2019 and I downloaded that at the request of someone from 1P to help her try to figure out why 1P was being so totally disfunctional. It's a system diagnostic tool of some kind. It may be valuable to keep. It sent back long reports to tech support, that's all I remember about that. And anyway, these three instances of 1P in the Application folder are not what I was focused on, I want to remove the old installs that you can see in my reply to ag-tommy. And the larger question (which he alluded to) is, do not use an "app cleaner" to remove files. As I told him I have 10,000 or more of these old files just hanging around taking up space. Even deleting Adobe for example according to their instruction leaves behind hundreds, if not thousands of these cyber scraps. Is there any way to delete them without harming the current "correct" instance of 1P? I realize this may be a larger question that applies to computers generally rather than to just 1Password, but it just seems so counter productive to have this digital detritus just building up and building up and no way to clean it out.