How to reset or change id of teamviewer 12081460 for mac

How To Reset Or Change Id Of Teamviewer 12081460 Mac OS X Applications And

A long time ago i found an app in the Hackstore called appcleaner.

One of the applications that I actually use on her machine is TeamViewer which is fanstanstic if you need to provide remote assistance to a Mac or PC (you can actually set up a free account I highly recommend this service).

So one of the first things that I do is to configure TeamViewer on any machine that I may need to provide remote assistance to.

As part of the Migration Assistant process, TeamViewer was copied over to the new Mac so I didnt need to reconfigure anythingor so I thought.

When TeamViewer sets up the TeamViewer ID, it makes it so that you cannot easily change it.

Unfortunately, that means that on cloned Mac systems, the TeamViewer ID will be the same on the old and the new Macs, pretty much rendering TeamViewer useless when both cloned and original Macs are running.

So, instead of having to search for the solution, I figured I would write out the easy steps to reset the TeamViewer ID.

I would expect the process for a PC to be different so Im not covering how to do this on the PC.).

You then put in LibraryPreferences and look for the com.teamviewer.teamviewer10.plist for example.

If you ever need to know what the commands mean, just go into termain and type man (for manual) and the command.

How To Reset Or Change Id Of Teamviewer 12081460 Mac OS X Applications And

Mac OS X applications and other programs use the defaults system to record user preferences and other information that must be maintained when the applications arent running (such as default font for new documents, or the position of an Info panel).

Much of this information is accessible through an applications Preferences panel, but some of it isnt, such as the position of the Info panel.

If the file does not exist, do not display a diagnostic message or modify the exit status to reflect an error.

The real and effective uid and gid are set to match those of the target user as specified in the passwd file and the group vector is initialized based on the group file (unless the -P option was specified).

If the invoking user is root or if the target user is the same as the invoking user, no password is required.

Otherwise, sudo requires that users authenticate themselves with a password by default (NOTE: in the default configuration this is the users password, not the root password).

Also, there is a setting buried in the Advanced part of the TeamViewer that allows you to uninstall the application including the configuration files.

Again, it is free to use for personal use but if you are going to use it in a business or corporate environment, you need to purchase a license.

I then contacted teamviewer and they sent me the following instructions, which did work but only after I did it to the original machine as well.

To make sure we would recommend, deleting the files on both systems.

Scroll to the bottom and choose Uninstall, being sure to tick Also delete configuration files.

I did this on both Macs at once (Im not sure if that is crucial).

If it does work its better than messing with.plists.

Its not clear why Teamviewer doesnt ensure that the Also delete configuration files option erases all the pesky.plist files.

Cheers, BP.

How To Reset Or Change Id Of Teamviewer 12081460 For Mac