How to uninstall Tolaria on Mac
Tolaria is an app for managing markdown knowledge bases, from tolaria.md and its GitHub project. Your notes are not in the app: per its README, every vault is a folder of markdown files and a git repository that you chose, with no account and no cloud dependency, so removing the app leaves every vault where it is. Before you start, check where your vaults are and, if you use a git remote, push them. This guide covers the official disk image for Apple silicon and the Homebrew cask tolaria.
Quit and remove the app
- If you connected Tolaria to another tool through its MCP setup, disconnect it in Tolaria first. Per the project's architecture notes, that setup writes a Tolaria entry into other tools' configuration files such as
~/.claude.json,~/.cursor/mcp.jsonand~/.config/opencode/opencode.json, and removing the app does not remove those entries. You can also delete the entry by hand. - Quit Tolaria with Command + Q. In the test, Status grouped five processes under one row: Tolaria and the macOS web view and audio helpers it uses.
- Open Finder, go to Applications and drag Tolaria to the Trash.
The app registered no login item or launch agent in the test.
Where the data lives
Press Shift + Command + G in Finder to open each path. Skip any path that is not on your Mac.
| Location | What it holds | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| Your vault folders | Your notes, one git repository per vault, wherever you put them | Keep. Neither Mole nor the Homebrew cask touches them. |
~/.config/com.tolaria.app |
Per the architecture notes, vaults.json (the list of vaults) and settings.json; the folder was empty in the test |
Remove. Mole lists it for review but does not select it. Removing it makes Tolaria forget which vaults it knew, not the vaults. |
~/Library/Caches/club.refactoring.tolaria |
Cache | Remove. Mole selects it by default. |
~/Library/WebKit/club.refactoring.tolaria |
Web view storage | Remove. Mole selects it by default. |
The club.refactoring.tolaria folders inside the folders that getconf DARWIN_USER_CACHE_DIR and getconf DARWIN_USER_TEMP_DIR print |
Mole's two temporary cache rows, empty in the test | Remove. Mole selects both by default. |
~/.laputa/cache |
Per the architecture notes, a fast-start index kept outside the vault and rebuilt from the files; not present in the test and not listed by Mole | Remove if it exists. |
Check the result
pgrep -il tolaria
ls -d /Applications/Tolaria.app ~/.config/com.tolaria.app ~/Library/Caches/club.refactoring.tolaria ~/Library/WebKit/club.refactoring.tolaria ~/.laputa/cache
grep -l -i tolaria ~/.claude.json ~/.cursor/mcp.json ~/.config/opencode/opencode.json
- No output from
pgrepmeans Tolaria is not running. A printed line is a process still alive; quit it. - For
ls -d, "No such file or directory" means that path is gone. A printed path is still on disk; for~/.config/com.tolaria.appthat is expected if you chose to keep it. grep -lprints the name of each file that still mentions Tolaria, which means an MCP entry is still there. No output, or "No such file or directory" for a tool you do not use, means nothing was registered in that file.
If you installed it with Homebrew
brew uninstall --cask tolaria
The cask quits the app and removes it on an ordinary uninstall. Its zap list covers ~/.config/com.tolaria.app, ~/Library/Application Support/com.tolaria.app, ~/Library/Caches/club.refactoring.tolaria, ~/Library/Preferences/club.refactoring.tolaria.plist and ~/Library/WebKit/club.refactoring.tolaria. It names no vault folder, but brew uninstall --cask --zap tolaria run yourself deletes the vault list in ~/.config/com.tolaria.app and does not read Mole's checkboxes. Mole adds --zap only when its whole removal scope passes its zap gate; ~/.config/com.tolaria.app is outside ~/Library, so Mole never runs this cask's zap and removes the rows you selected itself. The Homebrew install was not tested.
What Mole lists
Mole selects the app, ~/Library/Caches/club.refactoring.tolaria, ~/Library/WebKit/club.refactoring.tolaria and the two temporary cache rows. It lists ~/.config/com.tolaria.app for review and does not select it. Mole does not look for vault folders and does not list them.
What this test covered
On November 9, 2026, the test downloaded Tolaria 2026.11.6 for Apple silicon from the project's GitHub release, whose checksum matched the Homebrew cask, copied the app to Applications without running brew install and opened it once. It then quit the app and removed it with a source-built Mole with every review row ticked. Mole moved the app, its cache, the web view storage, both temporary cache folders and the empty ~/.config/com.tolaria.app to the Trash, and nothing attributable to Tolaria was left. Status showed one Tolaria row with 5 processes. Mole found no update feed for the app, and no update was run. Creating or opening a vault, git, the MCP setup, a Homebrew-managed uninstall and Mole's notarized release build were not tested.