How do I completely remove mega sync client

Question

I'm using mega service (http://mega.co.nz). I installed the sync client on my Ubuntu 14.10 and it works well. But now I'm trying to configure a new account. I did a purge to the mega sync pakckage :

sudo apt-get --purge remove megasync

and I deleted the associated folder. But after the new install, mega detect my old mega account and it did'nt even create the folder! I disconnected the old one but don't work!

Any help is welcome.

Solution 1

You have in your home directory a megasync configuration ~/.local/share/data/Mega Limited. Configurations in your home directory are not deleted by simply uninstalling a package.

Remove this folder with:

rm -rf ~/.local/share/data/Mega\ Limited

For the future use purge instead of remove when you want config files to be gone as well.

Solution 2

To clear the mega client configuration must be eliminated.

sudo apt-get --purge remove megasync

and then delete the configuration

rm -rf ~/.local/share/data/Mega\ Limited

Comments

[Zied ALAYA]

thx A.B thx. it works.

[A.B.]

The command sudo apt-get --purge remove megasync has been executed by the OP and is unnecessary in the response. Apart from that your answer does not provide new information that was not already written in other answers.

[A.B.]

@user237966 Were you satisfied with my answer? Then give me a upvote (∧). If I could solve your problem, then it would be nice if you'd mark my answer (✓).

[Vassilis]

This is the correct answer. Other answers mention that --purge will remove configuration files located in the home directory too. This is not true. So the correct sequence is this.

[Vassilis]

--purge does not remove configuration files located in the home directory.