Best Practices for uninstalling Final Cut Server

NOTE: Prior to following any of these steps, go to Final Cut Server System Preferences and click "Stop" to stop Final Cut Server services.

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/

The following file is the Final Cut Server catalog (database). If you need to preserve a copy of the Final Cut Server catalog, use the Backup pane of Final Cut Server System Preferences to create an immediate backup of the Final Cut Server catalog.

/var/db/FinalCutServer/

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

Additional Notes:

• For Mac OS X v10.6, these files need to be removed:
  
  /private/var/db/receipts/com.apple.pkg.FinalCutServer.bom
  /private/var/db/receipts/com.apple.pkg.FinalCutServer.plist
  
  You can access /var/db/receipts/ in the Finder by choosing Go to folder from the Go menu, and then typing  /var/db/receipts/.
  

• For Final Cut Server 1.5, this file needs to be removed as well:
  
  /Library/Application Support/ProApps/ProAppsSystemID

Note: If Final Cut Studio (2009) or Logic Studio (2009) are also installed on the system that you remove the ProAppsSystemID from, you will have to re-serialize those applications when opening them.

• To remove the Final Cut Server user account from the local database, run the following command in Terminal (you will need an administrator account to run this command): 
  sudo dscl localhost delete /Local/Default/Users/fcsvr
   
• 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]