Completely remove Bluestacks emulator?

[Wheelie4]

Installed Bluestacks emulator yesterday. Just kept crashing so uninstalled it. Removed everything except this one stubborn file I can’t remove. It is protected. Even tried from main Admin Account in safe mode. Any ideas how to remove it? I am using macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 on a 2017 MacBook Pro.

 

[Weaselboy]

Try this in Terminal. You will be asked for your password.

sudo rm -rf /Library/StagedExtensions/Applications/BlueStacks

 

[Wheelie4]

Try this in Terminal. You will be asked for your password.

sudo rm -rf /Library/StagedExtensions/Applications/BlueStacks

Tried that but didn't make any difference. Still there and still protected. Thank you for the help though.

 

[Fishrrman]

How I would remove it:

1. Boot from my external cloned backup
2. Select internal drive in the finder by clicking on it ONE time
3. Bring up the get info box, and put a checkmark into "ignore ownership on this volume" (sharing and permissions).
4. Now, I can delete ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING on the internal drive that I wish.

But... one must be careful that one does NOT delete something that will render the Mac unbootable...

 

[Wheelie4]

How I would remove it:

1. Boot from my external cloned backup
2. Select internal drive in the finder by clicking on it ONE time
3. Bring up the get info box, and put a checkmark into "ignore ownership on this volume" (sharing and permissions).
4. Now, I can delete ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING on the internal drive that I wish.

But... one must be careful that one does NOT delete something that will render the Mac unbootable...

That worked! Thanks alot.

 

[Wheelie4]

During the situation I started this post about I was discussing it with an individual on Twitter. Afterwards he did a little more looking into the situation to only discover a flaw in High Sierra "SIP" security. This is the article he wrote afterwards. I thought you guys might enjoy reading about it. Here is the link to the article.

https://eclecticlight.co/2018/01/02/the-app-you-cant-trash-how-sip-is-broken-in-high-sierra/

 

[Weaselboy]

During the situation I started this post about I was discussing it with an individual on Twitter. Afterwards he did a little more looking into the situation to only discover a flaw in High Sierra "SIP" security. This is the article he right afterwards. I thought you guys might enjoy the read about it. Here is the link daily article.

https://eclecticlight.co/2018/01/02/the-app-you-cant-trash-how-sip-is-broken-in-high-sierra/

Good find.... and thanks for that. When I first saw your problem I thought to myself SIP might be the problem, then dismissed it as SIP would ordinarily not allow any app to install the file to begin with. This article explains it.