I dont often use my laptop. Today when I opened it up and loaded Studio, I noticed that I couldn’t test my game. Studio itself isn’t frozen, but the game just never loads when I click play. I can open the project, edit scripts, but cannot test. I quickly opened up a blank baseplate, and sure enough, it would never load once I clicked play. Pressing the “Stop” button or using keyboard shortut does nothing. I used the following script to try to force remove all related Roblox studio files (Courtesy of Grok)
#!/bin/bash
echo "=== Completely uninstalling Roblox Studio on macOS ==="
echo "This will remove the app and ALL related files (cache, preferences, logs, etc.)."
read -p "Press Enter to continue (or Ctrl+C to cancel)..."
# Quit any running Roblox processes
echo "Quitting Roblox processes..."
pkill -9 "Roblox" 2>/dev/null || true
pkill -9 "RobloxStudio" 2>/dev/null || true
pkill -9 "Roblox Player" 2>/dev/null || true
# Remove main application
echo "Removing Roblox Studio app..."
sudo rm -rf "/Applications/RobloxStudio.app" 2>/dev/null || true
sudo rm -rf "/Applications/Roblox.app" 2>/dev/null || true
# Remove user-level Roblox folders (most common leftovers)
echo "Removing user data, cache, preferences, and logs..."
rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Roblox
rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/Roblox
rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/com.roblox.*
rm -rf ~/Library/Preferences/com.roblox.*
rm -rf ~/Library/Logs/Roblox
rm -rf ~/Library/Logs/com.roblox.*
rm -rf ~/Library/Saved\ Application\ State/com.roblox.*
rm -rf ~/Library/HTTPStorages/com.roblox.*
rm -rf ~/Library/WebKit/com.roblox.*
rm -rf ~/Library/Containers/com.roblox.*
# Remove any hidden or additional Roblox folders
rm -rf ~/Library/Roblox
rm -rf ~/Library/Developer/Roblox 2>/dev/null || true
# Optional: Remove temporary Roblox files
rm -rf /tmp/Roblox 2>/dev/null || true
echo "=== Cleanup complete! ==="
echo "Roblox Studio and all related files have been removed."
echo "You can now reinstall from the official Roblox website if needed."
I am not sure of any other way to “clean uninstall” Roblox on MacOS. After reinstalling the problem is persisting. I reinstalled by going to one of my games pages, clicked the hamburger dropdown, and clicked “Edit”. The Roblox Player still works, I can play my own games through the website, just not through Studio.
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