How to uninstall OBS Studio on a Mac, and keep or remove your recordings
Remove OBS from Applications, then its scenes and settings folder. Your recordings are elsewhere, in the folder you set, and are often the biggest part.
How do I uninstall OBS on a Mac?
- Quit OBS.
- Move OBS from Applications to the Trash. Ours, version 32.2.2, was 438 MB.
- Move
~/Library/Application Support/obs-studioto the Trash (38 MB here): scenes, profiles, plugins and logs. - Optionally remove
~/Library/Caches/com.obsproject.obs-studio, its preferences in~/Library/Preferences/com.obsproject.obs-studio.plist, and its WebKit and HTTPStorages folders, together under 1 MB.
Where are my OBS recordings?
In the folder set under OBS's Settings, Output, Recording Path: by default your Movies folder. Uninstalling OBS does not touch them. Check that folder before you decide you are done; hours of recording can be tens of gigabytes.
How do I keep my scenes if I reinstall?
Export them first: Scene Collection, Export, and Profile, Export, in OBS's menu bar. Or keep the obs-studio folder and OBS finds everything on reinstall.
More on recordings: OBS recordings taking up space.
Common questions
How do I completely uninstall OBS on Mac?
Move OBS to the Trash, then remove ~/Library/Application Support/obs-studio and its cache and preferences.
Does uninstalling OBS delete my recordings?
No. They stay in the recording folder set in OBS's Output settings, Movies by default.