Removing all MOTU drivers and software from Mac OSX

[realizment]

Guys,

I cant find info anywhere on removing MOTU files from OSX completely, please advice.

Thank you!

[mikehalloran]

That covers too much ground. Do you have a particular product in mind?

[monkey man]

For DP and Audio & MIDI Interfaces:

~Applications (ClockWorks, CueMix FX, MOTU PCI Audio Setup, DP and MOTU VIs that run stand-alone)
~Library/Application Support/MOTU (tonnes of stuff in here involving DP's plugs)
~Library/Extensions (Motu MIDI Driver, MOTUFireWireAudio, MOTUMicroBookAudio, MOTUPCIAudio etc. post-Mountain Lion)
~Library/Audio/MIDI Devices (MOTU ƒ)
~Library/Audio/MIDI Drivers (Motu MIDI Driver lives here)
~Library/Audio/Plug-Ins (MAS ƒ)
~Library/Audio/Plug-Ins (MOTU Audio Export ƒ)
~Library/Audio/Plug-Ins (MOTU Control Surface ƒ)

User/Library/Application Support/MOTU (This is for CueMix Configurations and some of DP's plug settings)
User/Library/Preferences (just look for files and ƒs starting with com.motu.xxxxx - they're all grouped together)
User/Library/Audio/Presets (MOTU folder can be removed if there)

If you've installed purchased MOTU VIs or plugs:
~Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components (if you chose the AU option in the installers, otherwise they'd have been in the MAS ƒ - see above)
~Library/Application Support/MOTU (I'm guessing this is where support folders would live)

Post-Mountain Lion the extensions, as listed above, are in ~Lib/Extensions.
Pre-Yosemite, they're in ~System/Library/Extensions, and they begin with "MOTUxxxxx"

This covers pretty much all of it, excepting for invisible files such as "Auth" ones, which can't do any harm and occupy a ridiculously-small amount of disk space.

[mikehalloran]

This covers pretty much all of it, excepting for invisible files such as "Auth" ones, which can't do any harm and occupy a ridiculously-small amount of disk space.

How soon we forget.

http://www.motu.com/techsupport/technot ... issionsFix

OK, it's only still an issue if you have Auth files predating DP 5 and are trying to authorize DP 7.24 or earlier.

A few years back, I posted a better fix than the one in the Knowledge Base that works on all versions of OS X including Yosemite. If it's ever needed, I can find it or post again.

[cuttime]

http://apps.tempel.org/FindAnyFile/

[realizment]

Thanks guys. Its just any files left by installing the current drivers for an 828 mk2

[Playa]

This is what MOTU sent me for my 828mk3 Hybrid. I think it is the same for all units:

Macintosh HD/Applications/:
CueMix FX.app
MOTU Audio Setup.app
MOTU PCI Audio Setup.app
MOTU PCI SMPTE Setup.app
MOTU SMPTE Setup.app

Macintosh HD/Library/Audio/MIDI Drivers/:
Motu MIDI Driver.plugin

Macintosh HD/System/Library/Extensions/:
Motu MIDI Driver.kext
MOTUFireWireAudio.kext
MOTUMicroBookAudio.kext
MOTUPCIAudio.kext

Macintosh HD/Library/Extensions/:
Motu MIDI Driver.kext
MOTUFireWireAudio.kext
MOTUMicroBookAudio.kext
MOTUPCIAudio.kext

Macintosh HD/Users/YOURUSERNAME/Library*/Preferences/:
com.motu.ChannelNamerAwesome.plist
com.motu.CueMixFX.plist
com.motu.firewire.SMTPE.console.plist
com.motu.FireWireAudio
com.motu.pci.config.console.plist
com.motu.pci.CueMix.console.plist
com.motu.pci.SMPTE.console.plist
com.motu.PCIAudio
MOTU FireWire Console.prefs

Macintosh HD/Users/YOURUSERNAME/Library*/Application Support/MOTU/:
CueMix FX

* To access this folder, click on the Go menu in the Finder, hold down the Option key, and select “Library”.

10.10.x = Root Library for Extensions
Anything before = System Library for Extensions

Hope this helps!

[monkey man]

Looks like MOTU just copied me. LOL

This covers pretty much all of it, excepting for invisible files such as "Auth" ones, which can't do any harm and occupy a ridiculously-small amount of disk space.

How soon we forget.

http://www.motu.com/techsupport/technot ... issionsFix

OK, it's only still an issue if you have Auth files predating DP 5 and are trying to authorize DP 7.24 or earlier.

A few years back, I posted a better fix than the one in the Knowledge Base that works on all versions of OS X including Yosemite. If it's ever needed, I can find it or post again.

I hadn't forgotten, Mike, but all indications were the OP hadn't been using DP for that long. If he / she had been doing so, he / she'd have had a much better idea of where to look for the files, you'd think.

Trust you to have found a better solution than the one in the KB. Amazing!