I have uninstalled cursor but all of the settings and extentions remain. Is there a way to do a CLEAN install and remove everything?

On macOS, I have to remove the following to have a clean Cursor re-installation: rm -rf ~/Library/Application Support/Cursor rm -rf ~/.cursor*

ok im on windows but im sure its app data which is similar. thanks brother

For Windows, uninstall doesn’t really do much. You must manually delete ton of stuff. Cursor guys really needs to improve this behavior. You need to delete following folders: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Programs\cursor* %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Cursor* %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Cursor* %USE…

Cursor has nothing to do with it, that’s just how VSCode works. [image] Uninstall Visual Studio Code Uninstall Visual Studio Code and clean up.

@teve4me : This topic had already been discussed, “extentively” even: [image] Completely reinstall cursor and remove all settings Discussion Hi Guys, In short: I want to reinstall cursor and delete all settings, to see if that helps my problem. How can i make sure that a…

[Screenshot 2025-09-22 at 4.34.22 PM] same issue, can’t reinstall. Tried downloading 8 times, even the deleting folders

Issuing rm -rf ~/Library/Application Support/Cursor looked like it succeeded from the terminal, and an echo $? returned 0, but the files were still there. I had to nuke them from the Finder… odd.

rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Cursor use escape \ for space

100% remove cursor?

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dandv December 8, 2024, 12:29pm 7

@teve4me: This topic had already been discussed, “extentively” even:

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