Uninstall the daemon

Uninstalling removes the daemon program and its background service. Your Vault folders are never deleted. They are ordinary folders of Markdown files, and they stay where they are.

Uninstall with the Daemon Manager

npx bookmarks-but-better@latest uninstall

1. It asks: Remove the daemon and its background service? Your vaults stay where they are.
2. It stops and removes the background service.
3. It deletes the installed daemon versions. On macOS and Linux, it also removes the ~/.local/bin/bookmarks-but-better command. On Windows, it removes the install folder from your user Path.
4. It asks whether to remove the configuration file too. The answer defaults to no. The file is small, and a later install uses it again, so your Vaults are already set up.
5. It lists each Vault as Untouched.

To remove the configuration file without being asked, use --purge-config:

npx bookmarks-but-better@latest uninstall --purge-config

In the extension

Open Settings → Sources, open the daemon’s menu, and click Forget daemon. Otherwise, the extension keeps showing the daemon as unreachable.

Uninstall by hand

Remove the service first, while the daemon program is still installed:

macOS and Linux

bookmarks-but-better service uninstall
rm -rf ~/.local/share/bookmarks-but-better
rm ~/.local/bin/bookmarks-but-better

To also remove the configuration file:

rm ~/.config/bookmarks-but-better/config.toml

Windows

1. Remove the service:

   bookmarks-but-better service uninstall

2. Delete the folder %LOCALAPPDATA%\bookmarks-but-better.

3. Remove %LOCALAPPDATA%\bookmarks-but-better\current from your user Path environment variable.

4. To also remove the configuration file, delete %USERPROFILE%\.config\bookmarks-but-better\config.toml.

service uninstall stops the service and removes its definition. It reports your vault was not touched, or nothing to remove: no service definition is installed if there was no service to remove.

Removing your bookmarks too

The uninstaller never deletes a Vault. If you no longer want your bookmarks, delete the Vault folders yourself. Consider making a backup first.