Help with uninstalling Adobe Flash Player

[Guest]

I am using MacOS Sierra, Version 10.12.1

Safari Browser, Version 10.0.1

I have been having difficulty with display of AARP games (I guess I am officially an old person!) and with not being able to load Pandora One. I followed the suggestion in Adobe Support to uninstall Flash Player, and reinstall.

After uninstalling was complete, I am stuck on the directions:

Delete the following directories:

<home directory>/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash\Player

<home directory>/Library/Caches/Adobe/Flash\Player

I looked on the MacIntosh Hard Drive under 'Library', but was unable to locate either. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place.

Can someone help me?

[Satinder S Bains]

It's the users home directory. Can be reached using ~/library

[_maria_]

Hi,

Apple hides the Library (System and User's) folder by default.  See Access hidden Mac OS library files  to view the hidden Library folder.  There are 2 Library folders: /Library is the System Library folder, ~/Library will be the logged in User's Library folder.  For the log files you want the currently logged in User's Library folder.

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Maria

[jeromiec83223024]

That said, you shouldn't really have to manually delete files in the bowels of the operating system, unless there's some extraordinary circumstance, which would typically indicate a corrupted filesystem or failing hard disk. While the approach cited is certainly thorough, it seems like overkill, and there are easier ways to get a similar effect.

If you want to make sure that Flash Player's internal state is blown away, you can simply go to Settings > Flash Player > Advanced, and choose Delete All. 

It's far more likely that the original issue wasn't a problem with the installation, but a problem with the ever-changing security restrictions imposed by Safari on Plug-ins (i.e. Flash Player). 

Once you've reinstalled Flash Player from here:

http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

... take a look at this document, although I'm not sure that it's caught up with 10.12 yet:

Enable Adobe Flash Player for Safari

If that doesn't help and you're not using ad-blockers or anything like that, let us know and we'll provide some other suggestions.

Thanks!