how can i uninstall lightroom 3?

[Richard Wozniak]

how can i uninstall lightroom 3?

[Guest]

That would depend on what OS you are using.

[99jon]

On Windows go to the control panel and choose uninstall programs.

Find Lightrooom in the list of applications; click on it to highlight it, then click the uninstall button.

Don’t drag to the trash.

[Richard Wozniak]

Sorry, I am on  a Mac OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard.

Lightroom consistently shows "lightroom quit unexpectdly" every time I try to launch it.

[tamrainvt]

I'm bumping this to see if a Mac user could chime in and be of some assistance, for Snow Leopard or Lion.

[Joe Colson]

For Mac OS (Snow Leopard or Lion), the simplest way is to drag the application [icon] to the Trash. If you want to completely remove all traces of Lightroom, including Preference files, use an application like AppZapper.

[Richard Wozniak]

Thanks Joe.

I also found another app - AppDelete which is very good and there is a manual method described on Flickr:

A more thorough uninstall:

- drag the Lightroom application icon to the trash ...

- in the user account, drag all of the following to the trash ...

~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom

~/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.Lightroom3.plist

~/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.Lightroom3.LSSharedFileList.plist

~/Library/Caches/Adobe Camera Raw

~/Library/Caches/com.adobe.Lightroom3

- in the System-wide library folder, drag the following to the trash ...

/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom

- drag any catalog folders you might have created to the trash ...

(The default Lightroom catalog folder is ~/Pictures/Lightroom in the user account.)

- Empty the trash. Once done, all Lightroom components and catalog files will be removed from the system.

Notes:

- The preference files and cache files pertain to Lightroom 3. For Lightroom 2, replace the "3" in the filenames with "2".

- Once you delete the catalogs, all your editing work done on photos will disappear unless you export a copy of all edited image files.

- If you want to keep your original image files, be sure that they are not located in catalog folders as a sub-folder. The default when you tell Lightroom to "Export as Catalog..." and 'include negatives' is to create a catalog folder with a sub-folder containing copies of the original image files.

- Omit the step of deleting the catalog folders if you are uninstalling with the intent of re-installing the Lightroom application again, and want to continue with your edited work as it exists now.

I hope this helps any poor schmuk who, like me, screwed his Mac up and needs help to get out of trouble!

Richard