I installed TeamViewer Host on Mac, used it and when tried to drug and drop TeamViewer Host to Trash the dialog “The item “TeamViewer Host” can’t be moved to the Trash because it’s open” was popped up. I did not find any option to quit TeamViewer Host from GUI, just I could minimize the TeamViewer Host window. Activity monitor showed me 3 running processes related to TeamViewer: one TeamViewer_Service process and 2 TeamViewer Host processes. The ps command also shows me 3 running processes related to TeamViewer:
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# ps -e -o pid,command | grep -i teamviewer 73827 root /Applications/TeamViewerHost.app/Contents/MacOS/TeamViewer_Service -Module Host 73829 someuser /Applications/TeamViewerHost.app/Contents/MacOS/TeamViewer_Desktop -RunAsAgent YES -Module Host 73831 someuser /Applications/TeamViewerHost.app/Contents/MacOS/TeamViewerHost -RunAsAgent YES |
The first I decided to stop TeamViewer_Service, I assumed the the service was launched as daemon, not as an agent:
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# launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.teamviewer.teamviewer_service.plist # launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.teamviewer.Helper.plist |
TeamViewer_Service was gone:
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# ps -e -o pid,user,command | grep -i teamviewer 73829 someuser /Applications/TeamViewerHost.app/Contents/MacOS/TeamViewer_Desktop -RunAsAgent YES -Module Host 73831 someuser /Applications/TeamViewerHost.app/Contents/MacOS/TeamViewerHost -RunAsAgent YES |
Then kill TeamViewer_Desktop:
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# kill -9 73829 |
And kill the last TeamViewerHost process:
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# kill -9 73831 |
Now Activity Monitor did not show any TeamViewer processes and it is possible to drag and drop TeamViewer Host from Applications to Trash or simnply delete /Applications/TeamViewer\ Host folder.
Besides to do additional cleaning it was reasonable to remove the following files or folders:
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# rm -f /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.teamviewer.* # rm -f /Library/LaunchAgents/com.teamviewer.teamviewer* # rm -f /Library/Preferences/com.teamviewer.teamviewer.preferences.plist # rm -fR /Library/Caches/com.teamviewer.TeamViewer.RemotePrinting/ # rm -fR /Library/Application\ Support/TeamViewer\ Host/ |
this was a f***ing lifesaver btw. my elderly parents mac upgraded and got into this state and i wasn’t aware of launchctl and just tried using activity monitor.