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I am unable to completely uninstall the Zoom meeting app from my Mac running macOS Mojave.

I once installed the Zoom meeting app. Then I deleted it from Applications directory. Now, every-time I open a zoom meeting in Google Chrome, the Zoom app gets reinstalled automatically! Terrible...

So I investigated from where and how it has permission to reinstall and I found out they created a hidden folder .zoomus containing ZoomOpener.app and there is a ZoomUsPlugIn.plugin in ~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins directory.

Question: I have deleted the following 4 files:

• zoom.us.app from /Applications directory.




• zoomusInstaller.pkg from ~/Downloads directory




• ZoomOpener.app from hidden .zoomus in home dir




• ZoomUsPlugIn.plugin from ~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins directory. directory

But it still gets reinstalled. How can I completely uninstall it?

EDIT 2

the support now gave me this script to run: I ran it but it still gets installed again after opening a meeting... this is the worst app i have ever used...

currently i run this script to uninstall, to no success

#! /bin/bash

echo Cleaning Zoom...

echo Cleaning Application Cached Files...

sudo rm -rf ~/Library/Application Support/zoom.us

echo Cleaning Application..

{

  sudo rm -rf /Applications/zoom.us.app

  sudo rm -rf ~/Applications/zoom.us.app

  sudo kextunload -b zoom.us.ZoomAudioDevice

  sudo rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/ZoomAudioDevice.kext

} &> /dev/null



echo Removed Application...





{

    sudo rm -rf ~/Downloads/zoomusInstaller.pkg

    sudo rm -rf /Applications/zoom.us.app

    sudo rm -rf ~/Desktop/Zoom

    sudo rm -rf ~/Library/Application Support/zoom.us

    sudo rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/us.zoom.xos

    sudo rm -rf ~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ZoomUsPlugIn.plugin

    sudo rm -rf ~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ZoomUsPlugIn.plugin

    sudo rm -rf ~/Library/Logs/zoom.us

    sudo rm -rf ~/Library/Logs/zoominstall.log

    sudo rm -rf ~/Library/Preferences/ZoomChat.plist

    sudo rm -rf ~/Library/Preferences/us.zoom.xos.plist

    sudo rm -rf ~/Library/Saved Application State/us.zoom.xos.savedState

} &> /dev/null



echo Other stuff...

I noticed even after clearing out all the files that matched my find queries.

$ find . -type f |&grep -iE "zoom|zoom.us"

$ find . -type d |&grep -iE "zoom|zoom.us"

You can look at this output to figure out files to delete. This removed most of the Zoom.us cruft:

$ rm -fr ~/Library/Application Support/zoom.us 

    ~/Library/Logs/zoom.us Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ZoomUsPlugIn.plugin 

    ~/.zoomus/ 

    ~/Library/Logs/zoom* 

    ~/Library/Caches/us.zoom.*

Finally I noticed that there was a Zoom.us app still running:

$ ps -eaf | grep -i [z]oom

  502 42920     1   0  7:49AM ??         0:00.77 /Users/smingolelli/.zoomus/ZoomOpener.app/Contents/MacOS/ZoomOpener

If I killed this app the behavior stops.

$ kill 42920

References

• Test link for Zoom.us meeting

Following is a list of files removed when uninstalling Zoom meeting client installed via Homebrew:

/Applications/zoom.us.app

~/Desktop/Zoom

~/Library/Application Support/zoom.us

~/Library/Caches/us.zoom.xos

~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ZoomUsPlugIn.plugin

~/Library/Logs/zoom.us

~/Library/Logs/zoominstall.log

~/Library/Preferences/ZoomChat.plist

~/Library/Preferences/us.zoom.xos.plist

~/Library/Saved Application State/us.zoom.xos.savedState

You can try to go through the mentioned directories and delete the files present to see if that resolves your issue.