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remove Slack settings (OS X)
rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Slack/
rm -rf ~/Library/Containers/com.tinyspeck.slackmacgap/
rm -rf ~/Library/Preferences/com.tinyspeck.slackmacgap.plist
rm -rf ~/Library/Saved\ Application\ State/com.tinyspeck.slackmacgap.savedState
rm ~/Library/Safari/LocalStorage/*slack*
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skoji commented Nov 2, 2015

When Slack.app causes kernel panic, this worked for me.

@innocarpe
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innocarpe commented Nov 17, 2017

This isn't working now... 🤔 (2.9.0) I had kernel panic now 😭

@leviathandeathsroke
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Saved me from an infinite loop of nonsense where my entire window was a connection error... but I was connected.

@gsamat
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gsamat commented Dec 29, 2017

Saved me from slow typing on MacOS, thank you very much!

@marlonmantilla
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Slack was crashing and this helped a lot! thanks!

@curious3
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Also need to remove

rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.tinyspeck.slackmacgap.helper.plist

@joshwisely
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In linux, Ubuntu specifically, the Slack config files are stored here:
~/.config/Slack

@rhenning
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Simply removing prefs didn't fix my Slack connection woes. This cleaned up all of the local bits and bobs and got things going again. Thanks! 👍

@steve-ross
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Didn't work for me... still in a re-connect loop

@steve-ross
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Never-mind... slack is down.

@igitthatalot
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igitthatalot commented Aug 20, 2018

Worked great when a users OSX version of slack was downloading all files as message.html for some reason. This script gives you a clean slate and fixed the issue. thanks.

@lbenka
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lbenka commented Nov 27, 2018

this got me out of connection loop, thanks!

@AskFeeds
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From 10.11 onwards, macOS protects certain folders by using SIP (System Integrity Protection). It may not be able to 'rm' the kext from terminal.

I still use the manual way to remove the Slack desktop app from Mac, following these steps:
~/Library/Application Support/Slack
~/Library/Saved Application State/com.tinyspeck.slackmacgap.savedState/
~/Library/Preferences/com.tinyspeck.slackmacgap.plist/
~/Library/Preferences/com.tinyspeck.slackmacgap.helper.plist/
~/Library/Logs/Slack/
The ~/Library/Caches/ and ~/Library/Containers/ directories can also contain Slack service files.

@stantronic
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Tx :)

@nachiket
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nachiket commented Nov 8, 2019

This was useful to me when a group changed to two-factor auth and wouldn't let me sign back in. Was stuck in an infinite loop of login with a tiny time window to remove workspace which never seemed to work out. What a painful process, Slack!

@kephin
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kephin commented Oct 8, 2020

nice! thanks for help

@tsaiyan
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tsaiyan commented May 26, 2021

700 mb released, thanks

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