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Can I delete BBEdit from my Mac?
You can delete BBEdit from your Mac, and the app itself keeps working in free mode after the evaluation period, so paid features are the only thing a license unlocks. Deleting the app does not remove your documents, settings, or the support folder that holds your customizations; those stay until you remove them separately. Decide based on what lives only on this Mac, because local customizations and backups are lost only if you delete their folders.
See how much space BBEdit really takes before you decide
BBEdit data usually takes 200 MB – 5 GB on a Mac. The free scan shows the exact size on your Mac before you change anything.
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- BBEdit
- Typical data size
- 200 MB – 5 GB
- Category
- Developer IDEs
- File Location
~/Library/Application Support/BBEdit
What you lose and keep when removing BBEdit
Specific to BBEdit
The app's customization folders — clippings, scripts, text filters, text factories and language modules — sit together in one support folder that you may have moved or synced, so deleting that folder removes your customizations. BBEdit's saved file backups live by default in a Documents folder, and those are your own data. Settings are stored in a preferences file, and the cache and saved window state rebuild automatically. Your own documents are never deleted by removing the app. Expect the app's data to take roughly 200 MB – 5 GB depending on how much you have customized and backed up.
Where your BBEdit data lives
These folders hold your own BBEdit data. Deleting the app leaves them in place; removing them is what actually deletes it.
- License
- After the evaluation period BBEdit keeps working in free mode; the extra features need a paid license.
- Your files
- Clippings, scripts, stationery and text factories you made are in the Application Support folder.
What to check before deleting BBEdit
Copy the support folder in Application Support first; it holds your clippings, scripts and custom language modules, and nothing recreates them. Save or close any open untitled documents before quitting for the last time, since unsaved text has no file to recover. If you installed the bbedit command line tools, remove them as well. Deactivating a paid license matters only if you want to move it elsewhere; the app otherwise continues in free mode. People with local projects or an account that is not synced should pause, because those customizations exist only on this Mac.
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How to delete BBEdit completely
Quit BBEdit, move it to the Trash, then remove what it left in ~/Library/Application Support/BBEdit. The full step-by-step guide:
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