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My Epson WF-4630 quit working right, so I eventually purchased an HP-OfficeJet Pro 8025 and installed it on my Mac (ca late 2012, running Catalina 10.15.3.
The printer installed well on my Mac and iPhone, and that’s as far as I’ve gotten.
But when I tried to print from the Mac, the Epson comes up all the time, even though I set the HP to be the default.
I have tried dragging the Epson to the trash, but that doesn’t work.
Is there a way to uninstall it? It isn’t even in the house any more.
Thanks lots,
Carol
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On your Mac, go to System Preferences > Printers & Scanners. In the left column are the printers you have used/are using. Highlight the Epson and at the bottom left of that pane, then click the minus (-) symbol. That should take care of it.
Bill
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On Feb 20, 2020, at 4:21 PM, floridabouvs via Groups.Io <floridabouvs@...> wrote:
My Epson WF-4630 quit working right, so I eventually purchased an HP-OfficeJet Pro 8025 and installed it on my Mac (ca late 2012, running Catalina 10.15.3.
The printer installed well on my Mac and iPhone, and that’s as far as I’ve gotten.
But when I tried to print from the Mac, the Epson comes up all the time, even though I set the HP to be the default.
I have tried dragging the Epson to the trash, but that doesn’t work.
Is there a way to uninstall it? It isn’t even in the house any more.
Thanks lots,
Carol
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On Feb 20, 2020, at 4:21 PM, floridabouvs via Groups.Io < floridabouvs@...> wrote:
My Epson WF-4630 quit working right, so I eventually purchased an HP-OfficeJet Pro 8025 and installed it on my Mac (ca late 2012, running Catalina 10.15.3.
The printer installed well on my Mac and iPhone, and that’s as far as I’ve gotten.
But when I tried to print from the Mac, the Epson comes up all the time, even though I set the HP to be the default.
I have tried dragging the Epson to the trash, but that doesn’t work.
Is there a way to uninstall it? It isn’t even in the house any more.
Go to your printers and scanners (or whatever it is called) preference pain (deliberate misspelling, since you are having a pain). On the left hand side you will have a list of printers, etc. Single click on the Epson and then hit the - button. You might have to give your password.
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Thanks, Bill. That absolutely worked.
Can you tell me how to get rid of the 9 Epson items/apps on my launchpad? I have never been successful deleting any apps from my Mac.
Thanks.
Carol
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Bill wrote:
On your Mac, go to System Preferences > Printers & Scanners. In the left column are the printers you have used/are using. Highlight the Epson and at the bottom left of that pane, then click the minus (-) symbol. That should take care of it.
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Right click, move to trash. Then empty trash if you like. Once trash is emptied, you cannot recover these files.
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On Feb 21, 2020, at 9:54 AM, floridabouvs <floridabouvs@...> wrote:
Can you tell me how to get rid of the 9 Epson items/apps on my launchpad? I have never been successful deleting any apps from my Mac.
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The following Apple support page describes how to delete apps two different ways, depending upon the source of the app: ?
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Thanks, Bill. That absolutely worked.
Can you tell me how to get rid of the 9 Epson items/apps on my launchpad? I have never been successful deleting any apps from my Mac.
Thanks.
Carol
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Bill wrote:
On your Mac, go to System Preferences > Printers & Scanners. In the left column are the printers you have used/are using. Highlight the Epson and at the bottom left of that pane, then click the minus (-) symbol. That should take care of it.
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Thanks Bill and Barry — I got rid of the Epson printer from my Mac System.
Now how can I get rid of the Epson apps in launchpad from the computer? I tried dragging them to the trash bin, but that doesn’t work. There are 9 of these items.
Thanks,
Carol
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Howdy. Open your Applications folder and drag anything Epson to Trash. There may be other Epson items lurking in one of the Library folders but they just become inert. You could do a Command f (Find) and search for them. Or, try EasyFind.app and search for them. Denver Dan On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 16:07:32 -0500, floridabouvs wrote: Thanks Bill and Barry ― I got rid of the Epson printer from my Mac System.
Now how can I get rid of the Epson apps in launchpad from the
computer? I tried dragging them to the trash bin, but that doesn’t
work. There are 9 of these items.
Thanks,
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Then I would try the other method described in the article I sent—locate them in the Applications folder and drag them to the trash from there.?
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Thanks Bill and Barry — I got rid of the Epson printer from my Mac System.
Now how can I get rid of the Epson apps in launchpad from the computer? I tried dragging them to the trash bin, but that doesn’t work. There are 9 of these items.
Thanks,
Carol
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Thanks Bill and Barry — I got rid of the Epson printer from my Mac System.
Now how can I get rid of the Epson apps in launchpad from the computer? I tried dragging them to the trash bin, but that doesn’t work. There are 9 of these items.
Were you given a message that you could not kill them, or did it simply not let you drag it there? Are you in an administrator account? Conceivably if you are it will ask for a password to do it. If in a “peon” account then maybe it just won’t let you do it. A great app that might help (which I have not used for ages, so maybe won’t work on new OS versions) is Trash It. Sometimes that works. Then there is the “folder from hell” that sometimes works. Can you move these files elsewhere, even if you cannot trash them? Make a new folder on your desktop. Then, somewhere else, other than your Desktop, create another folder with exactly the same name. Put the files you want to kill in the one on the desktop. Then move the other folder to the desktop. You will get a message that says that a file of that name already exists, and asks if you want to replace it or rename, etc. You want to replace it, which will delete the old folder. N.B. I’ve never tried this, but supposedly it works.
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I usually use “TrashMe” myself to get rid of everything. Good thing is, it will also get rid of locked files after you reboot.
There are others out there including AppCleaner, AppTrap, AppDelete & AppZapper.
Mostly, they remove the application and the supporting files, sometimes requiring a reboot.
My desire to keep a clean working system really forces me to get rid of everything to do with a program I no longer want.
YMMV.
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Thanks, Bill. That absolutely worked.
Can you tell me how to get rid of the 9 Epson items/apps on my launchpad? I have never been successful deleting any apps from my Mac.
Thanks.
Carol
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Bill wrote:
On your Mac, go to System Preferences > Printers & Scanners. In the left column are the printers you have used/are using. Highlight the Epson and at the bottom left of that pane, then click the minus (-) symbol. That should take care of it.
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Thanks Denver Dan and others who wrote. I had tried dragging the 9 Epson apps to the trash from the Launchpad, but that didn’t work. What did work was doing it from the Applications folder as a right-click. Just dragging didn’t do it. So thanks, all.
Carol
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Denver Dan wrote:
Open your Applications folder and drag anything Epson to Trash.??
There may be other Epson items lurking in one of the Library folders?
but they just become inert. You could do a Command f (Find) and search?
for them. Or, try EasyFind.app and search for them.??
Denver Dan?
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