Uninstalling the Tasktop plug-ins for Eclipse

NOTE: These instructions are for Eclipse 3.3. For those using more recent Eclipse releases, please use Help > Software Updates. Select the Installed Software tab, choose all Tasktop features and press the Uninstall button. A restart will be required.

Uninstalling plug-ins from Eclipse can be error prone and time consuming. For this reason we outline two different procedures for removal of your Tasktop plug-ins.

Before attempting to remove your Tasktop plug-ins, make sure to close any Tasktop Perspectives that are open as they cannot be closed once Tasktop is uninstalled due to an Eclipse bug. To do this, right click on the Tasktop Perspective shortcut in the perspective bar and choose close.

Removal of plug-ins via Manage Configuration (requires multiple Eclipse restarts):

Navigate in the toolbar menu to Help > Software Updates > Manage Configuration
Expand the Eclipse node until you see all the Tasktop features listed
Enable display of disabled plug-ins, press the button in the toolbar
Select all Tasktop features, right click to reveal the popup and choose disable. Restart Eclipse when prompted
Repeat steps 1 - 4 until all Tasktop features are disabled. This may take a few iterations.
Now that all Tasktop features are disabled, select all of the Tasktop features, right click to reveal the popup menu and choose Uninstall. Restarting Eclipse when prompted.
Tasktop features and plug-ins have now been removed. Note that you can get an installable application version of Tasktop from http://tasktop.com.

Note: Uninstalling Tasktop can potentially leave you with a later version of Mylyn then before you installed Tasktop.

Removal of plug-ins via file system (requires single Eclipse restart):

Shutdown Eclipse
Open a windows explorer view to your Eclipse application install folder
Remove all com.tasktop.* features from the features folder
Remove all com.tasktop.* folders and plug-in jars from the plugins folder
Restart Eclipse