Posted April 20, 2024
Hi,
really can not remember Galaxy was working on mac once without problems during the last 4 Years. It is either not starting up or (intel mac and the m3 max) or it can not be closed. If you try to quit it you are presented with broken windows that need to be force killed. Even worse there is no proper way to uninstall Galaxy. I was just so feed up with this crappy piece of software that I wanted to uninstall it. But guess what, putting it into the bin does not suffice. There will be startup items some overlay shit in spotlight and lots of files all over your hard drive.
To give you an idea I have put below some code, that I use to find files and dirs that are related to gog. The files in the parenthesis behind `gog_dirs` are the dirs that I have identified so war on my machine, but I have not looked for single files yet.
```
#!/usr/bin/env bash
ignore=(
"/System/Volumes/Data/Users"
"$HOME/Library/Application Support/Firefox"
)
gog_dirs=(
"/Users/Shared/GOG.com"
"/System/Volumes/Data/Users/Shared/GOG.com"
"$HOME/Library/Application Support/GOG.com"
"$HOME/Library/Saved Application State/com.gog.galaxy.savedState"
"$HOME/Library/Saved Application State/com.gog.galaxy-web-installer.savedState"
"$HOME/Library/HTTPStorages/com.gog.galaxy-web-installer"
"$HOME/Library/Caches/com.gog.galaxy-web-installer"
"/System/Volumes/Data/private/var/folders/09/pp8bf_ls00v_fm0_lh1syqxm0000gn/C/com.gog.galaxy.cef.renderer"
"/System/Volumes/Data/private/var/folders/09/pp8bf_ls00v_fm0_lh1syqxm0000gn/C/com.gog.galaxy-web-installer"
"/System/Volumes/Data/private/var/folders/09/pp8bf_ls00v_fm0_lh1syqxm0000gn/C/com.gog.galaxy"
"/private/var/folders/09/pp8bf_ls00v_fm0_lh1syqxm0000gn/C/com.gog.galaxy.cef.renderer"
"/private/var/folders/09/pp8bf_ls00v_fm0_lh1syqxm0000gn/C/com.gog.galaxy-web-installer"
"/private/var/folders/09/pp8bf_ls00v_fm0_lh1syqxm0000gn/C/com.gog.galaxy"
"/System/Library/Templates/Data/System/Library/AssetsV2/PreinstalledAssetsV2/RequiredByOs/com_apple_MobileAsse t_GamePolicy_DB1/19759571bf67563ad52aae8b692f131bc86c.asset/AssetData/GamePolicy-Launchers.bundle/Personalitie s/GOG_Galaxy"
"/System/Library/AssetsV2/com_apple_MobileAsset_GamePolicy_DB1/e255c4af26d7d11b65ec923236c837eb0704f670.asset/ AssetData/GamePolicy-Launchers.bundle/Personalities/GOG_Galaxy"
"/System/Library/AssetsV2/PreinstalledAssetsV2/RequiredByOs/com_apple_MobileAsset_GamePolicy_DB1/19759571bf675 63ad52aae8b692f131bc86c.asset/AssetData/GamePolicy-Launchers.bundle/Personalities/GOG_Galaxy"
)
# build and exclude condition for already known directories
for dir in "${gog_dirs[@]}" "${ignore[@]}"; do
exclude+=( -o -wholename "$dir" )
done
find / /Users \( "${exclude[@]:1}" \) -prune -o \( -type d -iname "*gog.galaxy*" -print \) 2>/dev/null
# directory(d)/file(f) -^ ^- glob "gog", "com.gog", "galaxy" part of the path you want to find
```
PS: Dear GOG please do not delete the post, I am customer since years and this should not end in bad blood. This is a grievance not only to me, but others as well and you should fix it! Other people use some doubtful cleaners to get rid of your software and probably end up with having spyware on their machines (just try google).
really can not remember Galaxy was working on mac once without problems during the last 4 Years. It is either not starting up or (intel mac and the m3 max) or it can not be closed. If you try to quit it you are presented with broken windows that need to be force killed. Even worse there is no proper way to uninstall Galaxy. I was just so feed up with this crappy piece of software that I wanted to uninstall it. But guess what, putting it into the bin does not suffice. There will be startup items some overlay shit in spotlight and lots of files all over your hard drive.
To give you an idea I have put below some code, that I use to find files and dirs that are related to gog. The files in the parenthesis behind `gog_dirs` are the dirs that I have identified so war on my machine, but I have not looked for single files yet.
```
#!/usr/bin/env bash
ignore=(
"/System/Volumes/Data/Users"
"$HOME/Library/Application Support/Firefox"
)
gog_dirs=(
"/Users/Shared/GOG.com"
"/System/Volumes/Data/Users/Shared/GOG.com"
"$HOME/Library/Application Support/GOG.com"
"$HOME/Library/Saved Application State/com.gog.galaxy.savedState"
"$HOME/Library/Saved Application State/com.gog.galaxy-web-installer.savedState"
"$HOME/Library/HTTPStorages/com.gog.galaxy-web-installer"
"$HOME/Library/Caches/com.gog.galaxy-web-installer"
"/System/Volumes/Data/private/var/folders/09/pp8bf_ls00v_fm0_lh1syqxm0000gn/C/com.gog.galaxy.cef.renderer"
"/System/Volumes/Data/private/var/folders/09/pp8bf_ls00v_fm0_lh1syqxm0000gn/C/com.gog.galaxy-web-installer"
"/System/Volumes/Data/private/var/folders/09/pp8bf_ls00v_fm0_lh1syqxm0000gn/C/com.gog.galaxy"
"/private/var/folders/09/pp8bf_ls00v_fm0_lh1syqxm0000gn/C/com.gog.galaxy.cef.renderer"
"/private/var/folders/09/pp8bf_ls00v_fm0_lh1syqxm0000gn/C/com.gog.galaxy-web-installer"
"/private/var/folders/09/pp8bf_ls00v_fm0_lh1syqxm0000gn/C/com.gog.galaxy"
"/System/Library/Templates/Data/System/Library/AssetsV2/PreinstalledAssetsV2/RequiredByOs/com_apple_MobileAsse t_GamePolicy_DB1/19759571bf67563ad52aae8b692f131bc86c.asset/AssetData/GamePolicy-Launchers.bundle/Personalitie s/GOG_Galaxy"
"/System/Library/AssetsV2/com_apple_MobileAsset_GamePolicy_DB1/e255c4af26d7d11b65ec923236c837eb0704f670.asset/ AssetData/GamePolicy-Launchers.bundle/Personalities/GOG_Galaxy"
"/System/Library/AssetsV2/PreinstalledAssetsV2/RequiredByOs/com_apple_MobileAsset_GamePolicy_DB1/19759571bf675 63ad52aae8b692f131bc86c.asset/AssetData/GamePolicy-Launchers.bundle/Personalities/GOG_Galaxy"
)
# build and exclude condition for already known directories
for dir in "${gog_dirs[@]}" "${ignore[@]}"; do
exclude+=( -o -wholename "$dir" )
done
find / /Users \( "${exclude[@]:1}" \) -prune -o \( -type d -iname "*gog.galaxy*" -print \) 2>/dev/null
# directory(d)/file(f) -^ ^- glob "gog", "com.gog", "galaxy" part of the path you want to find
```
PS: Dear GOG please do not delete the post, I am customer since years and this should not end in bad blood. This is a grievance not only to me, but others as well and you should fix it! Other people use some doubtful cleaners to get rid of your software and probably end up with having spyware on their machines (just try google).