How to remove ABBYY Lingvo for Mac

Instructions on completely removing ABBYY Lingvo for Mac from your computer.

If you purchased your copy of the program in AppStore:

1. Quit ABBYY Lingvo (Lingvo Dictionary > Quit Lingvo Dictionary).
2. In Finder go to 'Go > Utilities > Activity Monitor', select lingvod process in the list and click on the X-button on the upper left corner of the window.
3. Navigate to 'Go > Applications' and delete Lingvo Dictionary application (drag its icon onto the Trash).
4. Remove all components of ABBYY Lingvo and its pop-up translation module. To do so:
   1) Click on Go menu in Finder and hold Alt key on your keyboard - the Library item appears in the drop-down menu, select this item.
   2) In the Library folder go to Containers and delete com.abbyy.lingvo and com.abbyy.lingvo.backendfolders.
   3) Go back to the Library folder, navigate to Group Containers and delete Q58QAQTUTZ.SharedDataSuite.
   4) Go to the disk the current operation system and ABBYY Lingvo are installed on, navigate to the 'Library > Application Support' folder and delete the ABBYY folder.
5. Empty the Trash.

If you used another version of ABBYY Lingvo for Mac (e.g. purchased from our website):

1. Disable pop-up translation: open the ABBYY Lingvo menu and select the Preferences item, then select the Lookup tab and clear the Show pop-up window check box.
2. Quit ABBYY Lingvo (Lingvo Dictionary > Quit Lingvo Dictionary).
3. Navigate to 'Go > Applications' and delete Lingvo Dictionary application (drag its icon onto the Trash).
4. Remove all components of ABBYY Lingvo for Mac. To do so:
   1) Click on Go menu in Finder and hold Alt key on your keyboard - the Library item appears in the drop-down menu, select this item.
   2) In the Library folder go to Cash and delete the com.abbyy.lingvo folder.
   3) Go back to the Library folder, navigate to Preferences and delete com.abbyy.lingvo.plist.
   4) Go to the disk the current operation system and ABBYY Lingvo are installed on, navigate to the 'Library > Application Support' folder and delete the ABBYY folder.
5. Empty the Trash.