How to Uninstall Titanium Studio, OS X Style

In life and development, sometimes things break. There have been one or two occasions where I’ve needed to reinstall Appcelerator’s Titanium Studio. Unfortunately, to do a complete reinstall, you have to completely uninstall Titanium Studio. OS X doesn’t necessarily make this as straight forward as it should be. So let’s lay it all out, step by step.

Uninstall Titanium Studio OS X

A complete uninstall of Titanium Studio OS X isn’t difficult, but there are a lot of little pieces hiding out on your system. I’ve gathered these steps from various sources (and a bit of system searching) to put (hopefully) all of them together in one place. So here they are:

• Remove the /Applications/Titanium Studio folder.
• Remove your workspace folders.
  The default is workspace folder is in ~/Documents, and named Titanium Workspaces or something similar. You may have set a different default, or created other workspaces. Note that you may have projects in these directories. Back them up first.
• Remove the ~/Library/Application Support/Titanium folder.
• Uninstall the Titanium Node.js module
  You’ll need to open up a command prompt and run npm uninstall titanium -g, quite probably with sudo.
• Uninstall the Alloy Node.js module
  You’ll need to open up a command prompt and run npm uninstall alloy -g, quite probably with sudo.
• Remove the ~/.npm folder.
• Remove the ~/.alloy folder.
• Remove the ~/.titanium folder.

All Done!

Once you’ve completed all the steps, I’d restart your system for good measure. I fully admit this may be a holdover from so many years on Windows systems. After that you can download the latest version of Titanium Studio and get back to work.