Eqmac: Unable to uninstall

[squadgazzz]

UI version: 1.2.2
App version: 0.3.6
Driver version: 1.2
Big Sur MacOS

Settings -> Uninstall eqMac -> admin password -> "Uninstalling eqMac..." window hangs forever. Rebooting doesn't help.
If the app removed via Trash bin, eqMac is still in the output device settings.

[oddharsh]

same issue applies for me as well

[laurastreetradio]

Same issue here.

[TomaszG]

Can you share any uninstall script or an alternative way to uninstall eqMac? I wanted to try it, however, it's messing with my audio and I started to experience network issues (not sure if it's related to eqMac, I just want to check it).

[smolar]

Hi,
I had the same issue as all of us - eqmac (0.3.6) doesn't work (crash after launch) on Big Sur, so I wanted to delete it completely. When application has been uninstalled, ps aux | grep coreaudiod still showing eqmac plugin Core Audio Driver (eqMac.driver).
In my case removing files helped: rm -rf /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/*
sudo pkill -9 coreaudiod for restart.

Hope that will be useful

[squadgazzz]

Hi,
I had the same issue as all of us - eqmac (0.3.6) doesn't work (crash after launch) on Big Sur, so I wanted to delete it completely. When application has been uninstalled, ps aux | grep coreaudiod still showing eqmac plugin Core Audio Driver (eqMac.driver).
In my case removing files helped: rm -rf /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/*
sudo pkill -9 coreaudiod for restart.

Hope that will be useful

Thanks that's worked for me too. But I'm not sure you have to remove everything from /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/*. I have some other drivers inside. I've removed /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/eqMac.driver only.

[smolar]

Hi,
I had the same issue as all of us - eqmac (0.3.6) doesn't work (crash after launch) on Big Sur, so I wanted to delete it completely. When application has been uninstalled, ps aux | grep coreaudiod still showing eqmac plugin Core Audio Driver (eqMac.driver).
In my case removing files helped: rm -rf /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/*
sudo pkill -9 coreaudiod for restart.
Hope that will be useful

Thanks that's worked for me too. But I'm not sure you have to remove all from /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/*. I have some other drivers inside. I've removed /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/eqMac.driver only.

Fair point, I had nothing else in this directory and didn't think about it. Thanks

[anderssmedman]

I had no option to uninstall eqMac (the minus was grayed in Audio Devices and the app couldnt even start). Tried a lot of tips but no success.

I opened Finder in / and searched for eqMac, sent everything in result to Bin except one .kext that could not be removed and that was the one in Library/StagedExtenstions/Library/Extensions/ so I ran

sudo kextcache --prune-staging

It was now removed from my finder search result list, emptied the Bin and restarted the machine. Now the eqMac drivers was removed from Audio Devices list, no logs, no apps re-appered when I searched for eqMac.