10-24-2009 07:00 PM
I downloaded LabVIEW2009 Evaluation for Mac OSX yesterday. Installed it. Created a simple data acq VI, and tried to save it. Well, the problem is that the oldest version it can save it as is v 8.0. Our lab machine (Windows XP) runs version 7.1. So, anything I develop using this is useless.
So, I want to uninstall this and revert to 7.1 for Mac OSX that we do have a license for.
Questions:
1. How do I remove LabVIEW2009 Evaluation for Mac OSX (I am using Snow Leopard) ? I cannot find any Uninstall.sh script.
2. Will version 7.1 work on Snow Leopard ?
10-26-2009 01:21 PM
Hi m-s,
I think the information you're looking for can be found in this KB: http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/2DD1F93E5E20B5E68625743400767FD8?OpenDocument
The file for 2009 is called uninstaller.sh.
Please note that no version of LabVIEW is currently supported on Snow Leopard.
10-27-2009 10:27 AM - edited 10-27-2009 10:27 AM
I think I mentioned this, but there is no /Extra folder in the dmg, and there is no uninstall shell script.
I had seen the link you provided before I made that post. The proposed solution is not relevant to LabVIEW 2009 as far as I can tell.
10-30-2009 12:49 PM
I noticed this over here as well - this is only the case with the evaluation version. I would try using a software such as the AppCleaner to remove LabVIEW: http://freemacsoft.net/AppCleaner/ .
This is not an officially supported method for removal of NI software. However, as you are not seeing the uninstall script, you could give this a try.
11-24-2009 09:04 PM
11-24-2009 09:43 PM
11-25-2009 01:22 AM
11-25-2009 04:16 PM
Well, you can delete the LabVIEW 2009 folder under Applications/National Instruments.
Also, you can delete the Library/Application Support/National Instruments if you want to remove all the other libraries.
Still looking into why the uninstaller is not there.
11-25-2009 04:38 PM
12-04-2009 12:24 PM
That worked. Thanks.
It left a little cruft around in various places (like /Library/StartupItems, ~/Library/Preferences etc.) that I cleaned up manually. You do have to reboot the computer to unload the kernel modules.