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I have an old Macbook Pro where I apparently installed osxfuse at some point. Now I can't uninstall it, even though it's listed as installed.

I tried updating the OS to macOS Monterey 12.1, and I'm running the latest version of Homebrew. brew doctor shows no issues, just "Your system is ready to brew."

Any ideas?

Here is the problem:

➜  ~ brew list
==> Formulae
adns        ca-certificates gmp     libassuan   libidn2     libunistring    ncurses     openssl@3   pinentry-mac    unbound
autoconf    direnv      gnupg       libevent    libksba     libusb      nettle      p11-kit     pkg-config  watch
bdw-gc      gdbm        gnutls      libffi      libnghttp2  libuv       node        pcre        readline    xz
brotli      gettext     guile       libgcrypt   libtasn1    libyaml     npth        pcre2       sphinx-doc  zsh
c-ares      git     icu4c       libgpg-error    libtool     m4      [email protected] pinentry    sqlite      zsh-completions

==> Casks
osxfuse. <--!!

➜  ~ brew uninstall osxfuse --cask
Error: Cask 'osxfuse' is not installed.
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Go to the directory where casks are stored with cd $(brew --prefix)/Caskroom. Remove the cask manually with rm -rf osxfuse. Confirm that it's gone with brew list. In my case, osxfuse seems to have been made obsolete along the way and imperfectly removed (probably by brew) with some leftover cask metadata in the Caskroom directory. To be sure, use kextstat | grep osxfuse to see if the kernel extension is still there and if so you'll need to do some more cleanup.

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  • Somehow, between me asking the question and you answering it, it seems that osxfuse is no longer an installed cask. Marking as right answer anyway.
    – damd
    Commented Apr 12, 2022 at 12:59

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