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How do I uninstall Silverlight from Mac OS X?

Anonymous
2011-11-14T19:04:39+00:00

(My question doesn't fit any of the provided Forum options, so I've slotted it into the only Mac-related area.)

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  1. Jim G 134K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2011-11-15T00:59:07+00:00

    Your question is in the right forum. Close enough for me, anyway.

    Silverlight is a web browser plug-in. You might find it in various places on your Mac. It's pretty easy to do a Spotlight Search to find Silverlight on your Mac.

    The Sliverlight.plugin file is the actual plug-in. Put that file into the trash, empty the trash, and Silverlight is no longer available to run on your Mac. You may have a Silverlight installer and/or Silverlight Configuration Utility application somewhere on your Mac, which you can keep or trash. It's easy enough to download and install the plug-in again from Microsoft's Silverlight web site, should you change your mind and want Silverlight again.

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-01-21T07:18:50+00:00

    this exact thing happens to me except im trying to get silver light in order to watch netflix and every time i try and reinstall it i get a message saying theres already a newer version on the macintosh hd disk when i already deleted it and emptied the trash and deleted everything in the receipts folder

    PLEASE HELP

    *confused*

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-12-19T19:13:44+00:00

    You also have to remove the receipts of the package installer. You can find them in /Library/Receipts and for mountain lion /var/db/receipts : in a terminal, type:

    sudo rm /var/db/receipts/com.microsoft.SilverlightInstaller.*

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-11-27T19:17:34+00:00

    I use Silverlight for one application on my Mac. The app (3CX MyPhone) worked fine with Silverlight 4. I upgraded Silverlight to ver 5 and now I can't login to my phone system.

    In the console I get the error: Silverlight: Silverlight[802]: clip: empty path.

    I'm trying to reinstall version 4 of Silverlight but the installer says I still have a newer version installed. I've deleted the Safari Plugin and deleted the Silverlight folder from the Library>Microsoft folder. What else needs to be removed from my system to let Silverlight 4 installer work?

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  4. Anonymous
    2011-11-15T01:07:50+00:00

    Thanks for that!

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