I recently installed Visual Studio for mac right after the day it was launched. It consumed 20 gb of my disc space, so I decided to remove it. I went in to the applications folder and moved recently installed components associated with the installation to the trash. But it did not free any space at all. So I searched online and followed the following link for uninstallation: Uninstalling Xamarin
After following the link and entering all the terminal commands, I was only able to free up 10 gb of storage. How do I free up the rest 10 gb of the storage ?
Hi OrchestraMusic, Welcome to the MSDN forum. Now we have two Visual Studio versions (Visual Studio for Mac, Visual Studio Code) that can directly install on the Mac (macOS), refer to your description, it looks like you installed the Visual Studio for Mac, it is a developer environment optimized for building mobile and cloud apps with Xamarin and.NET.
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In case anyone else having the same question visited here, please visit the official guide.
The following is quoted from the original guide which was updated at 2017-4-14.
Uninstall Visual Studio for Mac App
Step 1. Locate Visual Studio.app in the /Applications directory and drag it to the Trash Can. Alternatively, right-click and select Move to Trash.
Step 2. Remove all traces of Visual Studio for Mac
Execute the following commands in your terminal:
Uninstall Xamarin.Android
Uninstall Xamarin.iOS
Uninstall Xamarin.Mac
Uninstall Workbooks and Inspector
Uninstall the Visual Studio Installer
Visual Studio 2012 For Window 10
Uninstall Mono SDK (MDK)
Warning
There are other applications outside of Xamarin which also use Mono, such as Unity. Be sure that there are no other dependencies on Mono before uninstalling it.
Other apps with name prefix Xamarin
Visual Studio For Osx
The official guide didn't mention it, but I found there were other apps named Xamarin.xxxx in my library directory. I simply moved them to trash.
DavidPostill♦May be this would be better solution (no need to follow each step): https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MicrosoftDocs/visualstudio-docs/master/mac/resources/uninstall-vsmac.sh :
If you haven't dealt with bash script before, you may look at its documentation too: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/mac/uninstall
Actually, it is pretty easy. Create a file with extension .sh (for example, vsremover.sh) and paste the code above. Save. Open terminal application, go to the place where you saved the file (for example: cd /Users/yourname/Desktop) and type the following:
Then run it: