J-Bird User's Guide (Version 0.5.2)

Removing J-Bird from your computer

These instructions assume that you accepted the default install of J-Bird. If you customized the install, you'll need to make modifications as appropriate.

• Mac OS X.
  • Drag the J-Bird icon to the trash from your applications folder.
  • The database itself is stored in Library/Application Support/J-Bird, where Library is a folder in your home directory. Delete Library/Application Support/J-Bird.
  • If you have been using J-Bird for some time and have ever upgraded from version 0.5.0 or less, there may be two directories on your system that you should remove. (If you have always been able to double-click on the J-Bird icon to launch J-Bird, this is not a problem
    • If the hidden directory .vainstall in your home directory contains only a directory that is associated with J-Bird (e.g., vai_J-Bird_0.5.2), delete .vainstall. Otherwise, delete the directory that's associated with J-Bird.
    • If a file named J-Bird exists in your home folder/directory, delete it.


• MS Windows.
  • Uninstall J-Bird as you would any other application. (Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Add/Remove Programs -> select J-Bird -> Add/Remove). Note that if you do not use the uninstaller you will be stuck with a J-Bird entry in the software registry until you manually remove it from the registry. (The key is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\J-Bird-0.5.2.)
  • Remove C:\Program Files\J-Bird if it still exists.
  • Windows XP users (but not Win 95/98 users) must remove the directory C:\Program Files\Common Files\vainstall\vai_J-Bird_0.5.2. (The uninstaller removes this directory on all platforms but XP.)
  • If the directory C:\Program Files\Common Files\vainstall is empty, remove it.


• Unix and Linux. You can run the uninstall script that is in the J-Bird directory, but you will still have to do some cleaning up. If you do the clean-up, there is really no need to bother with the uninstall script because the clean-up operation does everything that the script would do (and obviously more).
  • Delete the J-Bird directory/folder in your home directory and everything in it.
  • If the hidden directory .vainstall in your home directory contains only a directory that is associated with J-Bird (e.g., vai_J-Bird_0.5.2), delete .vainstall. Otherwise, delete the directory that's associated with J-Bird.
  • Delete ~/.J-Bird.