Uninstall 腾讯 Lemon on Mac
Finish any Tencent Lemon scan and note settings you want to reuse before uninstalling the cleaner itself. The September 19 and October 3, 2026 records cover the same official website edition, identified as com.tencent.Lemon, rather than the restricted App Store edition.
Quit and remove the app
Quit Lemon and its monitor, then move Tencent Lemon.app to Trash. Review Login Items & Extensions for a remaining Lemon item without editing macOS background-task databases. The official page has more product information.
Review the app’s data
After quitting Lemon and its monitor, keep a copy of any settings you want to reuse. Press Shift + Command + G in Finder to open each location or its parent, then select only the named Lemon item and move it to the Trash. Skip missing items and leave Tencent-wide folders and other Tencent apps alone. The current cask names these exact locations:
~/Library/Caches/com.tencent.Lemon~/Library/Caches/com.tencent.LemonMonitor~/Library/Logs/LemonMonitor.log~/Library/Logs/Tencent Lemon.log~/Library/Preferences/com.tencent.LemonUpdate.plist~/Library/Preferences/LemonMonitor_packet.dat~/Library/Preferences/Tencent Lemon_packet.dat
If you installed it with Homebrew
The Homebrew cask has its own --zap list. brew uninstall --cask tencent-lemon removes the app and also deletes /Library/Logs/Lemon and /Library/Preferences/LemonDaemon_packet.dat through its ordinary uninstall actions, without running the zap list; brew uninstall --cask --zap tencent-lemon also acts on its listed data without consulting Mole’s checkboxes. The cask includes monitor data, so check whether its process has stopped first. Mole skips --zap when its list reaches unchecked or shared data, or a removal scope it cannot verify; selected remnants still follow Mole’s own removal flow.
brew uninstall --cask tencent-lemon
Check the result
These commands inspect the running process and one relevant location. They do not remove anything:
pgrep -il "Lemon"
ls -ld "$HOME/Library/Caches/com.tencent.Lemon"
No pgrep match means no process with that name is running; a match needs identification before quitting anything. A listed path still exists, while an ls “No such file” error means only that exact path is absent. A permission error is inconclusive.
What Mole lists
Mole selects exact Lemon bundle-ID cache and preference rows by default when ownership is clear. A monitor or launch item is evaluated as its own component; other Tencent data is outside this uninstall.
What this test covered
The September 19, 2026 official-package test showed a com.tencent.Lemon.trash Launch Agent before removal and not afterward. In the October 3 test, source-built Mole removed the website app and selected data. Some service and user-data paths were already absent when removal reached them, so they were skipped rather than removed by Mole; the system /Library/Preferences/LemonDaemon_packet.dat file remained. Full vendor service removal, Homebrew-managed uninstall and the App Store edition were not tested.