Uninstall and remove Slowave

Disconnect Slowave from your agents and keep your memory, or remove everything. Learn what uninstall and purge each do, and how to reinstall later.

Slowave has two removal commands. One keeps your memory. The other deletes it.

Run slowave backup first. Both commands support --dry-run, which shows what would happen without changing anything.

Remove connections, keep memory

Run slowave uninstall.

• Disconnects your agents
• Stops background services and daily backups
• Keeps your memory and backups

Remove everything

Run slowave purge.

• Does everything uninstall does
• Deletes your memory database
• Deletes the *.bak.* copies of your agent config files that setup made
• Keeps your daily database backups

Neither command removes the Slowave program itself. You remove that in the last step.

Remove connections and keep memory

1. Preview

   slowave uninstall --dry-run
   
2. Uninstall

   slowave uninstall
   

Remove everything

slowave purge cannot be undone. It asks you to confirm before it deletes anything.

1. Preview

   slowave purge --dry-run
   
2. Purge

   slowave purge
   
3. Delete old backups (optional)

   Purge leaves the backups folder so you can still recover. Delete it yourself if you no longer want those copies. See backup and restore for the location.

Finish up

1. Clean up Cursor and Claude Desktop

   If you use either one, you pasted Slowave’s instructions into its settings by hand. Delete that block by hand too.

2. Remove the program

   Use the tool you installed with.

   pipx uninstall slowave
   

Reinstall later

Install again and run setup. See the quickstart.

pipx install slowave
slowave setup

If you kept your memory, your agents find it again. If you purged, restore a file from backup and restore.