leftover mozilla files after deleting Firefox???

[AeroBar]

Hello,

A couple of months ago I deleted Firefox.

I just did a search for "mozilla" using EasyFind, and found 24 files. Many are in a folder called python2.3.

Is this something related only to Firefox that I can delete or is required by my OS?

Regards

 

[Weaselboy]

Don't delete the ones in the Python folders. Those are part of the Python framework and on every Mac.

 

[AeroBar]

Don't delete the ones in the Python folders. Those are part of the Python framework and on every Mac.

What about the "mozilla" files themselves?

They are several - "MozillaCookieJar" and "mozilla_suite".py" with extensions ".py", ".pyo" and ".pyc".

I deleted (and trashed) a couple before I thought it through.

 

[Weaselboy]

What about the "mozilla" files themselves?

They are several - "MozillaCookieJar" and "mozilla_suite".py" with extensions ".py", ".pyo" and ".pyc".

I deleted (and trashed) a couple before I thought it through.

If it helps, I have never installed Firefox and here are the mozilla files I have on Sierra. These are all dated 7/30 and all part of the Python framework. You can just leave them all alone.

 

[AeroBar]

If it helps, I have never installed Firefox and here are the mozilla files I have on Sierra. These are all dated 7/30 and all part of the Python framework. You can just leave them all alone.

View attachment 662190

Do you think I've done any damage deleting a couple of them?

 

[KALLT]

As a rule of thumb, these are the directories where you should look (~ is your user directory):
~/Library
~/Library/Application Support
~/Library/Caches
~/Library/Containers
~/Library/Group Containers
~/Library/Launch agents
~/Library/Preferences
~/Library/Saved Application State

All of these directories either have sub-directories or files, which are either named after the name of program, the name of the vendor or a bundle ID (e.g. ‘org.mozilla.Firefox’).

Do you think I've done any damage deleting a couple of them?

Did you remove them from the System directory?

 

[Weaselboy]

Do you think I've done any damage deleting a couple of them?

You may have. If you have any apps that depend on that Python framework to run, they might not work. A Google search shows people having trouble with iPhoto not launching after deleting the Python framework.

You could just command-r boot to recovery and reinstall over top of your existing install (without erasing anything) and it would put it back without erasing your data. Backup first just to be safe.
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Did you remove them from the System directory?

All those files in my screenshot are in:

/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework

 

[AeroBar]

As a rule of thumb, these are the directories where you should look (~ is your user directory):
~/Library
~/Library/Application Support
~/Library/Caches
~/Library/Containers
~/Library/Group Containers
~/Library/Launch agents
~/Library/Preferences
~/Library/Saved Application State

All of these directories either have sub-directories or files, which are either named after the name of program, the name of the vendor or a bundle ID (e.g. ‘org.mozilla.Firefox’).



Did you remove them from the System directory?

I deleted them with EasyFind - I didn't look at anything else

 

[KALLT]

In that case, you probably broke something. I recommend rebooting to Recovery (press command + R after the tone) and reinstall OS X from there. It will download the Mavericks installer and repair or replace broken or missing files, while keeping your system configuration and user directory intact.

 

[AeroBar]

You may have. If you have any apps that depend on that Python framework to run, they might not work. A Google search shows people having trouble with iPhoto not launching after deleting the Python framework.

You could just command-r boot to recovery and reinstall over top of your existing install (without erasing anything) and it would put it back without erasing your data. Backup first just to be safe.

I didn't delete any file or folder named python - just a three (I think) in a subfolder of a folder called Python.

I just tested iPhoto and it seems fine.

I was going to upgrade to Sierra tomorrow - will that repair any damage that I may have done or should I do the Recovery first?

 

[KALLT]

Upgrading will fix it also. Sierra will also prevent you from breaking exactly this in the future, because system directories are completely protected.

 

[Weaselboy]

I was going to upgrade to Sierra tomorrow - will that repair any damage that I may have done or should I do the Recovery first?

Yep... a Sierra install will fix it just fine.

 

[AeroBar]

My thanks to both of you.😉