Final Cut Server: Uninstalling or deleting installed items

  • Last Modified: May 20, 2008
  • Article: HT1764

Summary

You may wish to uninstall some components installed by the Final Cut Server Installer in order to remove functionality or reinstall Final Cut Server.  If you wish to delete Final Cut Server database backups, proxies, and production media, remove them from the locations you configured when you first set up Final Cut Server.

Products Affected

Final Cut Server 1.0

In order to fully remove Final Cut Server components from the system, delete the following files and folders:

/Library/Application Support/Final Cut Server/
/Library/Application Support/ProApps/Final Cut Server System ID
/Library/PreferencePanes/Final Cut Server.prefPane
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.FinalCutServer.profile.plist
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.FinalCutServer.settings.plist
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.RegFinalCutServer.plist
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.FinalCutServer.backup.plist
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.FinalCutServer.fcsvr_ldsd.plist
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.FinalCutServer.fcsvr_stored.plist
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.FinalCutServer.postgresql.plist
/Library/Receipts/FinalCutServer.pkg
/Library/Logs/Final Cut Server/
/var/db/FinalCutServer/

Note: You can access /var/db/FinalCutServer/ in the Finder by choosing 'Go' then 'Go to folder' and typing in /var/db/.

To remove the Final Cut Server user from the local database, run the following command in Terminal: 

sudo dscl localhost delete /Local/Default/Users/fcsvr

Note:  You will need an administrator account to run this command.

To remove Final Cut Server web server information from Mac OS X, run the following command in Terminal:

sudo rm /private/etc/apache2/users/fcsvr.conf

To remove Final Cut Server web server information from Mac OS X Server, remove the following lines from the "mod rewrite" section of the /private/etc/apache2/sites/0000_any_80_.conf file:

RewriteRule ^/FinalCutServer$ /~fcsvr/Sites/webstart/index.php [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^/FinalCutServer.jnlp$ /~fcsvr/Sites/webstart/jnlp.php [NC,L]

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