Earlier today I was trying to clean up my demo environment and was struggling in finding the folder for one of my apps.
I wanted to clean up the environment using the Forge CLI forge uninstall command instead of uninstalling the app from the UI.
However, as you can probably and correctly guess, I have a lot of copies of the same repository/app available in my local filesystem and I couldn’t figure out which one was the right one.
All my attempts to find the right app by using the forge install --list where not helping in finding the right folder so after almost 30 minutes of me trying, I decided that I needed to find another way.
How to uninstall an app from the Forge CLI if you can’t find it in your filesystem?
Here is what I did:
- Browse to the Developer console and search for the app
- open each app and check the Installations tab
- once the one installed in the workspace, grab the
App IDfrom either the URL or the overview tab (this ise3539f94-92c3-4f8a-b8d5-7ff3d3edcaecin the screenshot above) - in a terminal, browse to any Forge app you have available locally → open the
manifest.yml→ replace the UUID part in theapp/iddefinition with the UUID of the app → save the file
- run the
forge uninstallcommand and the app is uninstalled
- don’t forget to change the App ID in the
manifest.ymlback to its original value
Problem solved. Next time I will not try to find the right app locally, I will just temporarily change the app id of one of the apps I have.
Have a nice weekend,
Caterina