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How to Completely Uninstall MongoDB Community on macOS Catalina

From this post on the IntelliPaat forum.

This guide assumes that MongoDB Community was installed on macOS Catalina using brew install mongodb-community@4.2. Refer to MongoDB Manual: Install on MacOS for installation instructions.

Commands to Uninstall

launchctl list | grep mongo 

launchctl remove homebrew.mxcl.mongodb 

pkill -f mongod 

brew uninstall mongodb-community

Commands to remove settings and data:

  • settings: rm -r /usr/local/etc/mongod.conf
  • logs: rm -r /usr/local/var/log/mongodb
  • data: rm -r /usr/local/var/mongodb
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