Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two reboots to uninstall

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Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two Recovery Mode reboots to uninstall 2026-03-29 Every time I utter the phrase “Samsung Magician,” a fully formed plan for reinstating the Inquisition is presented to me, whose sole goal is to burn this Magician at the stake. What kind of fucking name is that anyway? “Samsung Magician” - for a disk utility? Who greenlit this? Who sat in a meeting and said “yeah, Magician, like it does magic” ? The actual steps are at the end, now sit back and let me take you on a wonderful journey full of wonder way down into the Samsung shitter. We will find exactly what we expected, but more of it. What even is this and why did I even need to install it? I needed to set an encryption password on my T7 Shield SSD portable drive. To take advantage of the drive’s hardware encryption engine, I needed to use Samsung’s Magician software. I installed it. It didn’t work. I wanted it gone. So I started to look at how to remove this software. Samsung Magician’s uninstaller: tries 500 things, fails 500 times, tells you nothing useful, removes nothing First, there’s no uninstaller. Samsung - a trillion-dollar company - ships Mac software with no uninstall button. No drag-to-trash. Nothing. So I’ve dug around and found a cleanup script buried six folders deep inside the app bundle. Let’s try to run it: sh ~/Library/'Application Support'/Samsung/'Samsung Magician'/SamsungMagician.app/Contents/Resources/CleanupMagician_Admin_Mac.sh It ran. And my kitty exploded. Sweet kitty overflowed. Hundreds - literally hundreds - of lines of chown: Operation not permitted. The script’s grand strategy for uninstalling itself is to change the ownership of every single file, one by one, so it can then delete them. Except macOS blocks every single attempt. Five hundred chown errors. The script doesn’t stop, doesn’t catch the errors, doesn’t try plan B. It just keeps slamming its head into the wall for every file and then finishes like “yep, all done boss.” So, at...