uninstall pro tools 8 manually not 10 but 8

[daniel formica]

trying to uninstall pro tools 8 from mac mini mavericks. there are post on how to uninstall 10 manually but not 8. as the uninstaller does not work on mavericks and the folders in 10 are named differently than 8. this is something i called avid support on and they could not give me an answer.

[Chief Technician]

Download a program called Find Any File. Use it to search your Macintosh HD for any file that has either the word Avid or Digidesign in its name and delete the found files.

[nigelpry]

Originally Posted by Chief Technician

Download a program called Find Any File. Use it to search your Macintosh HD for any file that has either the word Avid or Digidesign in its name and delete the found files.

I'm pretty sure there are more than a few files to delete that do not have those words included in the file name … stock digi RTAS (.dpm) plugins and some divi hardware drivers installed by default in a PT8 install for example?

And a Pro Tools 8 installation won't have files including the word 'Avid' anyway, since although Avid owned Digidesign they didn't start using Avid branding on Pro Tools until V9.

[alethestar]

Did you manage to uninstall Pro Tools 8? The uninstaller doesn't work on my OS X 10.10.5 and I would like to uninstall it manually too.

[JFreak]

Far easier to erase hard drive and re-install OSX

[nigelpry]

Especially if you saved an image of the drive last time you did a clean install.