Removing Airport utility from M.L.

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  1. macmacr, May 29, 2013

    macmacr macrumors newbie

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    Is it possible to remove Airport Utility from Mountain Lion? If so how was it performed?
     
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  2. Dark Dragoon, May 30, 2013

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    You should be able to just drag the AirPort Utility app from the Utilities folder (located in the Applications) to the trash.

    There's also the:
    /System/Library/CoreServices/AirPort Base Station Agent.app
    But I wouldn't mess around with that.

    Though I'm curious as to why you would need to do this, as it only stops you from configuring your AirPort equipment.
    If say you didn't want someone else to be able to configure it then you don't tell them the password.

    Though at-least grabbing the AirPort Utility from Apples website to reinstall it should be fairly easy, unlike a lot of the other built in applications.
     
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  3. Bear, May 30, 2013

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    Removing apps that are part of the OS X distribution can cause issues with OS X patches.
     
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  4. old-wiz, May 30, 2013

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    Or you might find weird dependencies where part of the Airport Utility is used for something else.
     
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  5. macmacr, Jul 16, 2013

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    unable to delete

    It gives an error something like application is required for Mountain lion. This makes no sense since this is a applications for managing Apple's WIFI devices which I do not use. the reason I want to remove it is simple its an application I will not be using on my Mac.

     
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  6. dontpannic, Jul 16, 2013

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    Just leave it, it's not worth the hassle removing it.
     
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  7. Dark Dragoon, Jul 16, 2013

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    Yeah in that case I wouldn't try to remove it.

    Personally I wouldn't touch any of the built in apps.
    Especially those in the Utilities folder.
     
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