

Usually with Adobe products, you simply just can’t uninstall one thing and expect it all to be completely wiped from your system. Here’s how to uninstall Flash on your Mac. Most popular video streaming websites like YouTube and Netflix have switched over to HTML5 and no longer rely on Flash, making it the perfect time simply rid your Mac of Flash and make it safer overall. Don’t worry, though, as many of your favorite websites will still continue to function just fine. With that said, it’s time to uninstall Flash from your computer.

Plus, we wouldn’t be surprised if other web browsers followed in Mozilla’s footsteps. In fact, just recently, Firefox has blocked Flash for running in its web browser until all of the vulnerabilities are fixed, and Mozilla’s own chief security officer even wants to set a date to officially kill Flash once and for all. Over the last couple of years, Flash has been known to have some pretty serious security vulnerabilities that makes it susceptible to being hacked into, essentially acting as a back door for hackers to come in and raid your computer. Install fuse_wait which deals with false-postive error messages caused by timeout issues when mounting NTFS volumes in Mac OS X.If you’re sick and tired of Flash, here’s how to uninstall it once and for all on your Mac.Install NTFS-3G which is a component will work with FUSE.Install FUSE for macOS which is the magical key to allow this to all happen.This site has a good rundown which boils down to doing the following: If having improved NTFS compatibility in Mac OS X is needed, there are a few third-party tools around that can help you setup Mac OS X for NTFS reading and writing. That said, if you need cross platform (Mac OS X and Windows) readability and writability for your USB flash drive, you should consider reformatting it using FAT32 or exFAT in the Mac OS X “Disk Utility.” Should work with Windows XP as long as SP2 has been applied to it, above and Windows Vista as long as SP1 has been applied to it as well as Windows 7 and above. So if you want to erase that file, you need to erase it on your Windows machine. Mac OS X can only natively read NTFS file systems and cannot write to them so you cannot erase the data off of that disk in Mac OS X. If you are originally from the Windows world, and this USB flash drive was original for Windows use but you are now on a Mac and cannot delete a file off of this USB flash drive, I’m willing to bet that the USB flash drive was formatted in NTFS.
