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Put back what Shoo moved

Shoo never deletes anything. Whatever you shoo goes to the Trash, and History keeps your last 200 cleanups. Until you empty the Trash, any of them can go back.

1. Open History in Shoo’s sidebar.
2. Find the cleanup you want back.
3. Click Put back. Everything in it returns to where it was.

To undo the cleanup you just did, press ⌘Z, or choose Edit › Undo Shoo.

An item stays in the Trash if something else has taken its place since, or if it came from a disk that isn’t connected. Plug the disk back in and click Put back again. If an item needed your password to move, Finder puts it back and may ask for your password again.

Once you empty the Trash, those files are gone for good, and History says they’ve left the Trash. To take a cleanup off the list, Control-click it and choose Forget This Cleanup. That doesn’t move any files.

What Shoo’s permissions do

Shoo works without any of them. Each one lets it do a little more, and you can change any of them later in System Settings › Privacy & Security.

Full Disk Access

Without it, Shoo can’t look inside the places macOS guards, such as other apps’ containers, iCloud Drive and photo libraries. They show as locked, with no size, and Shoo doesn’t guess one. macOS also asks once each before Shoo looks in your Desktop, Documents and Downloads folders.

With it, Shoo can measure those places too, read which app owns each container, and check projects in Desktop and Documents without asking for each folder. It still never opens your mail or messages, or your documents apart from the AI instruction files described in Privacy.

To turn it on, open Shoo’s Settings, click Open Settings beside Full Disk Access, and switch on Shoo in the list. The list is also in System Settings › Privacy & Security › Full Disk Access.

Automation: Finder

Some items need your password before they can move. Shoo asks Finder to move those to the Trash, and Finder asks for your password, which keeps Put Back working for them. The first time this happens, macOS asks whether Shoo may control Finder.

If you say no, those items stay where they are and the rest of the cleanup still goes to the Trash. When you uninstall an app and the app itself can’t move, its files stay with it, so it never loses its settings. To change your answer, go to System Settings › Privacy & Security › Automation and find Shoo.

Removable Volumes

macOS asks the first time you map a disk you plugged in, such as an external drive or a camera card. Shoo reads the names and sizes of what’s on it, never what’s inside your files.

If you said no, Space says so. To change it, go to System Settings › Privacy & Security › Files & Folders, find Shoo and turn on Removable Volumes.

Remove Shoo

Shoo installs no helpers, login items or background services.

1. Put back anything you still want from History.
2. Quit Shoo with ⌘Q. If only its graph in the menu bar is showing, click the graph, then the … button, and choose Quit Shoo.
3. Drag Shoo from your Applications folder to the Trash.
4. To remove its History and settings as well, move ~/Library/Application Support/Shoo and ~/Library/Preferences/com.farid.Shoo.plist to the Trash.
5. If you gave Shoo Full Disk Access, select it in System Settings › Privacy & Security › Full Disk Access and click the minus button.

Remove Weir

Removing Weir doesn’t change your NextDNS settings, or how your devices use NextDNS.

1. In Weir’s Settings, choose Account and click Sign Out. Weir first blocks again anything you allowed for now, then deletes your API key from your keychain. If it can’t reach NextDNS, it says which domains are still allowed: stay signed in and it blocks them again when their time is up, or sign out and remove them at my.nextdns.io.
2. If Open at login is on, turn it off in Settings › General.
3. Quit Weir with ⌘Q, or with Quit in its menu bar panel, then drag it from your Applications folder to the Trash.
4. To remove its settings as well, move ~/Library/Containers/app.weir.mac to the Trash.

If you installed the profile from Weir’s Setup and want this Mac to stop using NextDNS, remove the NextDNS profile in System Settings › General › Device Management. Leave it there to keep using NextDNS on this Mac without Weir.

If Weir is already gone and you didn’t sign out, open Keychain Access, search for Weir and delete its NextDNS API key.

Get in touch

Email me at email@noiro.dev. Say which app and version you have (it’s in the app’s About window) and which version of macOS, and add a screenshot if something looks wrong.

I reply as fast as I can, but I’m in London, so if you write outside UK hours, expect an answer the next day.

Weir isn’t made by NextDNS. For anything about your NextDNS account itself, such as billing, ask NextDNS.