Uninstall

Your dotfiles are ordinary files, so removing dotsync leaves them exactly as they are. On the machine you’re leaving:

dotsync sync                   # send any last edits
dotsync agent uninstall        # remove the launchd agent, systemd timer or crontab line
rm -rf ~/.config/dotsync ~/.local/share/dotsync ~/.local/state/dotsync

Then remove the binary the way you installed it. Uninstall the agent first, on every user account that set dotsync up, or it keeps trying to run a missing binary.

Installed with	Remove with
the install script, init or a release archive	rm ~/.local/bin/dotsync
Homebrew	brew uninstall dotsync
apt	sudo apt remove dotsync, and optionally sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dotsync.sources /etc/apt/keyrings/dotsync.asc

If you set XDG_CONFIG_HOME, XDG_DATA_HOME or XDG_STATE_HOME, the three directories are under those instead. If you installed another copy of dotsync, for example with go install, remove that too.

• The other machines are unaffected, and keep syncing with each other.
• The shared repository stays on your git host until you delete it there.

Caution

~/.local/state/dotsync holds this machine’s backups of every file dotsync replaced or deleted. Copy out anything you want to keep before deleting it.

Stop using dotsync everywhere

Do the above on every machine, then delete the repository on your git host if you no longer need its history. Nothing needs to be undone first: every managed file is already a real file in its real place.