Uninstall BioBase

Remove BioBase from Windows, macOS or Linux, and what stays on this device afterward.

Uninstalling doesn’t remove anything from Infera Cloud. A workspace with backup turned on keeps its cloud copy in your Infera account afterward. To remove that copy, do it first, while BioBase is still installed, signed in and online:

1. Turn backup off

   Open the workspace, select Show backup and sync, and turn off Back up this folder. Repeat for each workspace whose cloud copy you want removed.

2. Confirm the cloud copy is gone

   If the removal doesn’t go through, the workspace shows “Infera Cloud has not yet cleared this workspace. BioBase keeps everything here and will try again when the workspace is next opened.” Reconnect, then open the workspace again, which retries the removal. Repeat until the message no longer appears.

BioBase retries the removal only when the workspace is opened on this device. If you sign out, uninstall or delete your BioBase profile while that message still appears, the cloud copy stays in your account. To have Infera remove it, email [e-mail] from your account’s address and say which workspace it is.

Then sign out: go to Settings, Data Agent, the Account panel, then Sign out. Signing out removes the sign-in from this device and asks Infera to end its access. To end a device’s access from the web, revoke BioBase under Connected apps in the Infera web app. Uninstalling alone doesn’t.

Uninstalling never touches your project folders. Every file BioBase wrote into a project stays where it is.

Windows

1. Quit BioBase

   Close every BioBase window.

2. Uninstall it

   In Windows Settings, open the list of installed apps, select BioBase, then Uninstall.

The uninstaller removes the BioBase install folder, the Start menu entry and the desktop shortcut. It leaves your BioBase profile in place, so a later reinstall opens with the same settings:

Folder	Contents
%APPDATA%\BioBase	Settings, local workspace history and other data BioBase keeps on this device
%LOCALAPPDATA%\BioBase	Files BioBase recreates when needed

To remove everything, delete both folders after uninstalling.

macOS

Quit BioBase, then drag BioBase from Applications to the Trash.

These stay until you delete them:

Location	Contents
~/Library/Application Support/BioBase	Settings, local workspace history and other data BioBase keeps on this device
~/Library/Caches/BioBase	Files BioBase recreates when needed
Your login keychain	A BioBase entry. Remove it in Keychain Access

To open the Library folder in Finder, select Go, then Go to Folder, and type ~/Library.

Linux

The AppImage is a single file and nothing is installed system-wide. To remove BioBase, quit it and delete the AppImage. If you extracted it, also delete the squashfs-root folder.

These stay until you delete them:

Location	Contents
~/.config/BioBase	Settings, local workspace history and other data BioBase keeps on this device
~/.cache/BioBase	Files BioBase recreates when needed
Your desktop keyring	A BioBase entry. Remove it with your keyring manager

If you set XDG_CONFIG_HOME or XDG_CACHE_HOME, the first two folders are under those locations instead.