Reset or uninstall Kioku

Kioku keeps everything on your computer. Uninstalling removes the app but not your data, so you can reinstall and carry on where you left off. To start over, or to leave nothing behind, delete Kioku’s folders as well.

Before you begin

• Quit Kioku first. On macOS, choose Kioku → Quit Kioku (closing the window leaves it running). On Windows and Linux, closing the window quits it. Deleting files while Kioku is open leaves it writing to files that are gone.
• Want to keep anything? Copy Kioku’s data folder (listed below for each system) somewhere safe first. Putting the folder back restores everything: your Collections, their media, the automatic backups and your settings. To keep a single Collection instead, see Back up & export.
• Deleting these folders can’t be undone, and it deletes Kioku’s automatic backups too.

Start over

Delete Kioku’s data folder, the whole folder. The next time you open Kioku it starts as it did on the first day: the license, the tour and the analytics question, in a new Default Collection.

Delete the whole folder

Deleting only collections/ and backups/ inside it isn’t a reset. The list of your Collections (collections.json) stays behind, so the old Collections still appear, and your settings and preferences stay too.

macOS

1. Quit Kioku.
2. In Finder, choose Go → Go to Folder…, enter ~/Library/Application Support/, and move the Kioku folder to the Trash.

Or in Terminal:

rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Kioku

Windows

1. Close Kioku.
2. Press Windows + R, enter %APPDATA%, and delete the Kioku folder.

Or in PowerShell:

Remove-Item -Recurse -Force "$env:APPDATA\Kioku"

Linux

Close Kioku, then:

rm -rf "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/Kioku"

Uninstall and remove everything

Removing the app doesn’t remove your data. To leave nothing behind, uninstall Kioku and then delete the folders listed for your system.

macOS

1. Quit Kioku, then drag Kioku from Applications to the Trash.
2. Delete whichever of these exist:

Path	What it holds
~/Library/Application Support/Kioku	Your Collections, media, backups and settings
~/Library/Logs/Kioku	Logs
~/Library/Caches/kioku-updater	Downloaded updates
~/Library/Caches/com.kioku.app	Caches
~/Library/Caches/com.kioku.app.ShipIt	The updater’s working files
~/Library/Preferences/com.kioku.app.plist	macOS’s own preferences for the app

Or in Terminal:

rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Kioku ~/Library/Logs/Kioku \
  ~/Library/Caches/kioku-updater ~/Library/Caches/com.kioku.app \
  ~/Library/Caches/com.kioku.app.ShipIt \
  ~/Library/Preferences/com.kioku.app.plist

Windows

1. Open Settings → Apps → Installed apps, find Kioku, and choose Uninstall. This removes the app but not your data.
2. Delete these two folders:

Path	What it holds
%APPDATA%\Kioku	Your Collections, media, backups, settings and logs
%LOCALAPPDATA%\kioku-updater	Downloaded updates

Or in PowerShell:

Remove-Item -Recurse -Force "$env:APPDATA\Kioku", "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\kioku-updater"

Linux

1. Remove the app. For the AppImage, delete the .AppImage file. For the .deb package, run sudo apt remove kioku.
2. Delete the data and the downloaded updates:

rm -rf "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/Kioku" \
  "${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-$HOME/.cache}/kioku-updater"

What isn’t on your computer

• Analytics. If you turned analytics on, the anonymous signals already sent stay with TelemetryDeck. They’re tied to a random install ID kept in Kioku’s data folder, so a reset makes a new one, and new signals can’t be linked to the old ones. See Privacy.
• The email list and the Discord server, if you joined them, are separate: unsubscribe from the link in any email, or leave the server in Discord.

Related

• Data locations
• Back up & export
• Collections