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Asked: 2026-06-12T14:33:55+00:00

I’m trying to remove a privileged helper tool installed via SMJobBless , I’m getting

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I’m trying to remove a privileged helper tool installed via SMJobBless, I’m getting a positive return value and no errors, yet the files at /Library/PrivilegedTools and /Library/LaunchDaemons are not deleted. Do I have to delete these files myself?

From the documentation I read:

Return Value true if the job was removed successfully, otherwise
false.

I’m calling the following to remove the job:
result = SMJobRemove(kSMDomainSystemLaunchd, (__bridge CFStringRef)label, _authRef, YES, &errorCF);

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  1. Editorial Team

    Thanks jatoben, that thread had the answer I was looking for.

    As suspected you do have to remove the files yourself or use the following: (Taken from Apple dev forums:)

    SMJobRemove is the equivalent of “launchctl remove”. That is, it
    removes the job from launchd but has no effect on the disk at all.
    Thus the job will get reloaded the next time you start up. To get
    around that you have to either remove the plist yourself or by
    fork/exec’ing “launchctl unload -w”.

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