

If you want just to remove the app from your Mac, go to the next section without removing the account. Note, if you delete the account all the data will be removed. How to remove Slack using an uninstaller.In addition, we also want to explain how to delete a Slack account. In this post, we want to share with you two ways to entirely remove Slack for Mac. My work's IT folks said nothing has changed on their end that should have affected this.įor now I guess I'll just use the App Store version since the web version doesn't integrate into my workflow well, but I'd really like to figure this out.If you want to uninstall Slack on your Mac completely, we recommend that you delete its service files as well. I've uninstalled and reinstalled it several times (both on and off my work VPN), checked the /Macintosh HD/Library directory for temp files containing "slack" (couldn't find any), and rebooted the machine several times. Other Electron apps (like VS Code) are working just fine on the same machine. Note: Unresponsive for 112 seconds before sampling Just says it was unresponsive, which isn't news to me. I've skimmed through the error report and nothing meaningful stood out to me. Force quitting the app brings up the "Report to Apple" popup. If I right click on the icon it says "Application Not Responding" with an option to force quit. After it finishes I open Slack.app and proceed past the "unknown file downloaded from the internet" warning, and the icon just bounces up and down in the dock for several minutes before it just stops bouncing. If I download it from the Apple App Store it works, but I don't want to use the App Store version, and the natively installed version worked just fine until suddenly it didn't despite seemingly nothing having changed.Īfter moving Slack.app to the /Macintosh HD/Applications directory it seems to go through the normal install process. The Slack desktop app is failing to launch 100% of the time on my work machine when using the version downloaded from.
