How to uninstall Tencent Docs on Mac
Tencent Docs keeps your documents in your Tencent account, so removing the app does not touch anything saved or shared online. Locally it writes a few folders named after neither its bundle id (com.tencent.mac.tdappdesktop) nor its display name, so Mole checks them by exact path. This covers the official package from docs.qq.com and the Homebrew cask tencent-docs.
Quit Tencent Docs and remove the app
- Quit Tencent Docs from its Dock icon or menu. It updates itself in the background, so it may have downloaded a newer version before you quit.
- Open System Settings › General › Login Items & Extensions and turn off the TencentDocs entry if you see one.
- Find TencentDocs in Finder's Applications folder and move it to the Trash.
Where its data lives
| Location | What it holds | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| ~/Library/Application Support/TDAppDesktop | Local app state: config.json, bookmark preferences and IndexedDB |
Listed by Mole for review, not selected; check it before removing |
| ~/Library/Caches/tdappdesktop-updater | The updater's download cache, rebuilt on the next update check | Selected by default |
~/Library/HTTPStorages/tdappdesktop and tdappdesktop.binarycookies |
The web renderer's HTTP store, which can carry session cookies | Listed by Mole for review, not selected |
The updater cache can be large: in the recorded test it held 737 MB.
Check the result
pgrep -il tencentdocs
ls -d ~/Library/Application\ Support/TDAppDesktop ~/Library/Caches/tdappdesktop-updater
- No output from
pgrepmeans Tencent Docs is not running; a listed process means it is still open, so quit it first. ls -dprinting a path means that folder is still on disk; "No such file or directory" means it is gone. Only the Application Support folder remaining is expected if you left that review row unticked.
If you installed it with Homebrew
Mole skips --zap when its list reaches unchecked or shared data, or cannot be fully checked, and still cleans the leftovers you selected.
The tencent-docs cask's zap list only reaches TencentDocs_* crash reports in /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports and ~/Library/Application Support/CrashReporter, the preferences file and the saved window state. Because one of those paths is outside ~/Library, Mole always drops --zap for this cask and removes the rows you selected itself. The zap list does not include TDAppDesktop, the updater cache or the HTTPStorages folder, so brew uninstall --cask --zap tencent-docs run by hand leaves them behind; check the table above afterwards.
Account
Uninstalling Tencent Docs does not delete documents in your Tencent account; they open again in a browser or on another device.
What Mole lists
For Tencent Docs, Mole selects the app and ~/Library/Caches/tdappdesktop-updater by default, and lists ~/Library/Application Support/TDAppDesktop and ~/Library/HTTPStorages/tdappdesktop (with its .binarycookies file) for review without selecting them. Rebuildable Chromium cache folders inside TDAppDesktop, such as Cache or GPUCache, appear as their own selected rows. Mole matches these exact paths only and does not treat other tdappdesktop-like folders as this app's.
What this test covered
On September 19, 2026, the official package was copied into Applications, opened, and removed with a Mole 1.15 Preview (build 277). The app updated itself from 3.10.1 to 3.11.8 during the run, and Mole recorded it under the Electron update channel. That run removed the rows named after the bundle id but did not list TDAppDesktop or the updater cache, which was left behind at 737 MB; the exact rows above were added to Mole after this test. A TencentDocs entry stayed in Login Items & Extensions after removal, pointing at the app in the Trash. Signing in and syncing documents were not tested, and the Homebrew cask was not installed.