Deactivate, activate and uninstall in Astute Manager

Please note that if you are simply wishing to deactivate the plugins, this is an automatic process when logging in or out of the Astute Manager.

If you want to fully uninstall the plugins:

In the Astute Manager, click on the Menu and then select "Uninstall all plugins".

After doing this, if you want to entirely uninstall all plugins and the Astute Manager from your system, please do the following:

1. Quit Illustrator

2. Log out of and then uninstall the Astute manager

Manually delete Astute Graphics plugins from inside the Illustrator plugins folder.

• On a mac, you can delete the plug-ins by going to the Applications Folder > Ai > Plug-ins >

• On Windows, use the standard Add/Remove program system as described by Microsoft here.

Now to uninstall the Astute Manager from your system:

Windows users

1. Quit the Astute Manager (it may still be located in the lower Windows Tray).

2. Open the Windows "Add / Remove" system.

3. Search for the Astute Manager and follow the Windows options to remove the application.

Although not officially necessary, we do recommend that you restart your system following this process.

macOS users

1. Quit the Astute Manager (it may still be located in the top macOS menu bar).

2. In the macOS Finder, open the Applications folder.

3. Drag the Astute Manager application to Trash.

Although not necessary, you can remove associated Astute Manager preferences and settings folders by following the next steps:

1. In the macOS Finder, open your user's home folder (typically found in Macintosh HD > Users > [current computer user name]).

2. Drag the Astute Manager folder to Trash.

3. In the Finder menu, open Go > Go to folder...

4. In the finder dialogue, enter /Library/Application Support/ and click on Go.

5. Drag the Astute Graphics folder to Trash.

6. In the finder, hold down the Alt key and open the Go menu and click on Library.

7. Open the Application Support folder.

8. Drag the Astute Graphics folder to Trash.