Uninstallation

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Devin Roth edited this page May 29, 2021 · 17 revisions

Uninstallation Instructions

These are instructions for manually uninstalling BlackHole. You can also uninstall by downloading and running the uninstaller. Download Uninstaller

Close all your audio devices, including ‘Audio MIDI setup’ and ’Sound’ in your ‘System Settings’
Open your terminal
Go to the directory where the driver is located cd /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL
Check if the driver is there. You should see the directory ‘BlackHole.driver’ ls
remove the directory ‘BlackHoleXch.driver’

sudo rm -rf BlackHole2ch.driver to remove the 2ch version.
sudo rm -rf BlackHole16ch.driver to remove the 16ch version.
sudo rm -rf BlackHole.driver to remove older versions.

restart the core audio driver sudo launchctl kickstart -kp system/com.apple.audio.coreaudiod
Check your system preferences and / or audio midi setup. You should not see the BlackHole driver anymore.