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Uninstall

Removing Olace is unremarkable on purpose. Here is the clean order of operations.

1. Sign out (optional but tidy)

Signing out revokes this machine's session and clears its pairing state:

olace signout

Or just revoke the machine later from another device (Account › Signed-in devices, or olace devices revoke <name>).

2. Remove the background service

olace service uninstall

This stops the daemon and removes its autostart entry (the systemd user service on Linux, or the system service of a root install; launchd agent on macOS; a Task Scheduler task or a registry Run entry on Windows). Olace will not silently reinstall a service you removed on purpose.

3. Remove the app

  • Windows. Uninstall Olace from Settings › Apps. The uninstaller also removes the background service and offers to delete your Olace data.
  • macOS. Drag Olace from Applications to the Trash.
  • Linux. Remove it the way you installed it (package manager or AppImage).
  • Mobile. Delete the app as usual.
  • Installed with the install script only? There is no app to remove: step 2 and step 4 cover it. The script also added ~/.olace/bin to your PATH, in your shell profile (~/.zshrc, ~/.bashrc, or ~/.bash_profile) on macOS and Linux, or in your user PATH on Windows; delete that entry.

4. Remove data, if you want it gone

Most of Olace's local data lives in one folder:

rm -rf ~/.olace
# Windows (PowerShell): Remove-Item -Recurse -Force $HOME\.olace

This deletes the daemon binary, configuration, device identity, CLI chat sessions, and logs on this machine. Conversations and attachments stored by the desktop app live in the same place; if you might come back, skip this step and everything will be waiting.

The desktop app keeps its settings in the system's app data folder: %APPDATA%\Olace on Windows, ~/Library/Application Support/app.olace on macOS, ~/.local/share/app.olace on Linux. Its saved sign-in sits there or in the system keychain. The daemon also keeps one small key, olace-daemon / identity-wrap-key-v1, in the system keychain (Credential Manager on Windows) to protect its device identity. Remove both if you want nothing left behind; the Windows uninstaller does this for you when you choose to delete your data.

A daemon installed as root on Linux keeps its Python sandbox in /var/lib/olace rather than under ~/.olace; remove that folder as well (sudo rm -rf /var/lib/olace).

Ollama and llmster, LM Studio's headless daemon, install outside Olace's folder and are yours, so they and their models survive the step above. Remove them separately if you no longer want them; llmster lives in ~/.lmstudio.

If Olace installed llama.cpp for you, that build and any GGUF files it downloaded live under ~/.olace/llamacpp and go with the folder above. Models you had already downloaded yourself are only linked there, so the originals survive; the same is true of a llama-server you installed yourself.

5. Delete your account, if that is the goal

Account deletion removes your synced data and account records. Start it in the app under Account, or see account deletion. It cancels a subscription bought on the web or in the desktop app; a subscription started in the App Store or Google Play has to be cancelled in the store.