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To purge Genymotion Desktop, follow the procedure corresponding to your operating system:
Windows
1. Remove all virtual devices (right-click on the virtual device > Delete).
2. Open Control Panel > Programs and Features.
3. Right-click on the Genymotion Desktop application and select Uninstall.
4. Follow the uninstallation steps.
5. Delete the directory %LOCALAPPDATA%\Genymobile.
6. Run regedit and delete the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Genymobile.
Note: To remove all programs used by Genymotion Desktop, you may also uninstall the VirtualBox application from Control Panel > Programs and Features.
macOS
1. Remove all virtual devices (right-click on the virtual device > Delete).
2. Open Applications.
3. Drag and drop the Genymotion Desktop application to the trash folder.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for the Genymotion Shell application.
5. Delete Genymotion Desktop data directories by running:
rm -rf $HOME/.Genymobile
rm -rf ~/Library/Preferences/com.genymobile.Genymotion.plist
rm -rf ~/Library/Saved\ Application\ State/com.genymobile.genymotion.savedState
Note: To remove all programs used by Genymotion Desktop, you may also uninstall VirtualBox application. In this case, repeat steps 2 and 3 for VirtualBox.
Linux
1. Remove all virtual devices (right-click on the virtual device > Delete).
2. Delete Genymotion Desktop installation directory. If installed in your home folder, use this command:
rm -r $HOME/genymotion
If installed in a different folder, replace $HOME by Genymotion Desktop installation full path.
Important: If you installed Genymotion Desktop for all users, with sudo, you need to delete the /opt/genymobile folder with command
sudo rm -rf /opt/genymobile
3. Delete Genymotion Desktop local data directories by running:
rm -rf $HOME/.Genymobile $HOME/.config/Genymobile/Genymotion.conf
4. Delete Genymotion Desktop launcher:
sudo rm -f /usr/share/applications/genymobile-genymotion.desktop
Note: To remove all programs used by Genymotion Desktop, you may also uninstall VirtualBox.
[Note: This article was last updated by Genymotion Help Center.]