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Profile Porter keeps almost everything on your computer, so most of it you delete yourself. This page says how, and how to have the little we keep online deleted. What we keep about you, and why, is on the privacy page.

Removing it from your Mac

  1. Open Settings › License and click Deactivate, so this Mac no longer counts toward your 3.
  2. In Settings › Privacy, turn off Show your sites in Spotlight. Your sites and profile names leave Spotlight.
  3. Choose another default browser in System Settings › Desktop & Dock › Default web browser.
  4. Quit Profile Porter and drag it from Applications to the Trash.
  5. In System Settings › Privacy & Security › Full Disk Access, select Profile Porter and remove it.

That leaves only what the app kept for itself. To remove it too, delete these if they’re there (in the Finder, Go › Go to Folder):

  • ~/Library/Preferences/com.rahmakyan.profile-porter.plist: your settings, picks and rules
  • ~/Library/Caches/ProfilePorter: lists it downloaded and what it learned about your sites’ apps
  • ~/Library/Logs/Profile Porter: its log, if it ever crashed

And in Keychain Access, the items named com.rahmakyan.profile-porter: your license.

Removing it from Windows

  1. Open Settings › License and click Deactivate, so this PC no longer counts toward your 3.
  2. Choose another default browser in Windows Settings › Apps › Default apps.
  3. Right-click Profile Porter’s tray icon and choose Quit Profile Porter.
  4. In a Command Prompt, run ProfilePorter.exe --unregister from the folder you put it in. It removes what it told Windows: its place among your browsers and links, the files that let your browsers start it, and starting with Windows.
  5. Delete that folder.

That leaves only what the app kept for itself. To remove it too, delete these if they’re there:

  • %LOCALAPPDATA%\ProfilePorter (type it in File Explorer’s address bar): your settings, picks and rules, lists it downloaded, which sites you’re signed in to in Chrome (names only), your license, and its log, if it ever crashed
  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ProfilePorter, in Registry Editor: a second copy of your license, encrypted for your Windows account

What we keep online

  • Your license and its computers, at Creem. Deactivating one ends its activation. To have your license deleted, write to us from the address you bought with.
  • Your purchase, at Creem. The payment, receipt and invoice are kept as long as tax law requires, and then deleted.
  • Emails you sent us. Ask, and we delete them.

The website keeps nothing about you to delete: no cookies, and visit counts without IP addresses.