The Absurdity of Uninstalling Samsung Magician

Every time I mention 'Samsung Magician,' I envision a modern-day Inquisition ready to burn this software at the stake. Seriously, who thought 'Magician' was a fitting name for a disk utility? I needed to set an encryption password on my T7 Shield SSD, which required Samsung's Magician software. But once installed, it was a nightmare to remove.

Samsung, a trillion-dollar company, ships Mac software without an uninstaller. I found a cleanup script buried deep within the app bundle, but it failed spectacularly, throwing hundreds of 'Operation not permitted' errors. The script's method was to change file ownerships, which macOS blocked, leaving all files intact.

I resorted to manually deleting every Samsung-related file I could find, running multiple rm -rf commands across various directories. Yet, 27 files stubbornly remained, including kernel extensions and cached processes. Even after more sudo rm -rf attempts, eight files persisted, protected by macOS's SIP.

To finally rid my system of these files, I had to disable SIP by rebooting into Recovery Mode, delete the files, and then re-enable SIP. All this hassle for a disk utility that didn't even function properly.

The real shocker was the software's bloated nature. Samsung Magician included frame-by-frame PNG animations for simple status indicators, an entire Electron framework, and custom fonts. It even had banner ads and localization files for numerous languages. This software is a testament to unnecessary bloat and corporate nonsense, frustrating users who just wanted to set a password on their drive.