How to uninstall Baidu Netdisk on Mac

Files you uploaded to Baidu Netdisk stay in your account after you remove the Mac app, but unfinished transfers stop, and files you downloaded stay wherever the app saved them. Before removing it, let transfers finish, confirm important uploads on the web at pan.baidu.com, and copy anything you want to keep out of any folder the app still syncs. These steps cover the official download and the Homebrew cask baidunetdisk.

Finish transfers and check the web copy

Open the transfer list and wait for uploads and downloads to finish, or cancel the ones you no longer need. Then open Baidu Netdisk on the web and open a few recent uploads to confirm they are complete.

Downloads go to your Downloads folder unless you changed it. Baidu's help center puts the setting under Baidu Netdisk menu › Settings › Transfer Settings (百度网盘 › 设置 › 传输设置). Uninstalling does not touch that folder.

If you set up a sync folder, Baidu's help center describes it as a folder that is kept in step with the cloud. Copy the files you want outside that folder and open the copies before removing the app; moving a file out of a folder that is still syncing is not the same as copying it. Baidu Netdisk help center

Quit and remove the app

1. Make Baidu Netdisk the active app and press Command + Q. Closing the window leaves it running.
2. Search for BaiduNetdisk in Activity Monitor and confirm its processes have exited.
3. Move BaiduNetdisk_mac from Finder's Applications folder to the Trash.
4. Open System Settings › General › Login Items & Extensions. If Baidu Netdisk is still listed, turn it off. After the test uninstall, its entry kept showing even though the app was gone; a leftover entry there is a record, not a running program.

Removing the app does not cancel a Baidu Netdisk membership or delete your account.

Where Baidu Netdisk keeps local data

In Finder, press Shift + Command + G and open each location that exists.

Apart from the group container and the launch agent, which the tests found on disk, these paths come from the Homebrew cask's zap list. Your download folder and any sync folder are not in this list; keep them until you have checked their contents.

Check the result

Run these read-only commands in Terminal:

pgrep -il baidunetdisk
launchctl list | grep -i netdisk
ls -d "$HOME/Library/Group Containers/group.com.baidu.BaiduNetdisk-mac" "$HOME/Library/Containers/com.baidu.BaiduNetdisk-mac.FinderSync"

• No output from pgrep means Baidu Netdisk is no longer running. A listed process means it or its Finder extension is still active; quit it before touching its folders.
• No output from launchctl list means no Baidu Netdisk job is loaded in your session. A netdisk_service line means its background service is still registered.
• ls prints each folder that still exists and reports "No such file or directory" for the rest. Both folders stayed on the test Mac; they hold the extension's and the group's own state, not your downloads.

If you installed it with Homebrew

The baidunetdisk cask unloads the netdisk_service job before removing the app. Its zap list trashes both Application Support folders, the cache, the crash-report cache, cookies, HTTPStorages, preferences, saved window state, the Finder extension's container and Application Scripts, and ~/Library/sapi/wappass.baidu.com. It does not name the group container or any download or sync folder. Running brew uninstall --cask --zap baidunetdisk yourself does not look at Mole's checkboxes. Homebrew Baidu Netdisk cask

Mole checks the zap list first. If it would reach a row you left unticked, such as Application Support/baidunetdisk, Mole drops --zap and removes only the app and the rows you selected.

To remove only the app:

brew uninstall --cask baidunetdisk

What Mole lists

When you remove it with Mole:

• ~/Library/Application Support/com.baidu.BaiduNetdisk-mac, the cache, preferences, cookies, HTTPStorages, saved window state, the Finder extension's container and Application Scripts are selected by default.
• ~/Library/Group Containers/group.com.baidu.BaiduNetdisk-mac and its Application Scripts folder are selected by default. Before trashing the group, Mole checks that no other installed app uses it; if it cannot confirm that, it keeps the group and says so on the row.
• ~/Library/LaunchAgents/netdisk_service.plist, the background service's launch agent, is selected by default.
• ~/Library/Application Support/baidunetdisk is named after the app rather than its bundle ID, so it is not selected by default.
• Mole can also list ~/Library/sapi/wappass.baidu.com, taken from Homebrew's zap list for this app, but does not select it. The sapi parent, your download folder and any sync folder are not listed.
• Login items and the system's background-item records are not edited; turn them off in System Settings.

What this test covered

On September 17, 2026, Baidu Netdisk was installed from the Homebrew cask baidunetdisk and removed with Mole 1.15 Preview (build 272). That build ran the cask's full zap list, which removed most files before Mole reached them; the Finder extension's container and the group container stayed. No sync folder was set up, and uploads, downloads and signed-in sync were not tested. The official download was not uninstalled in this test.

On September 26, 2026, Baidu Netdisk 8.8.8 from the official package Homebrew's cask points to was copied into Applications, opened once without signing in, and uninstalled with a development build of Mole with every listed row ticked. Status showed one BaiduNetdisk row with ten processes using about 577 MB. On first launch it added a login item and the netdisk_service launch agent. Eleven items went to the Trash, including the app, the group container, the Finder extension's container and the launch agent, and nothing from the list was left on disk; the login item was gone afterwards.