You can have multiple Tableau Desktop and Tableau Prep Builder installations on your computer. If you want to remove older versions or you want to perform a clean installation with default settings, you can completely remove the products, including preferences, saved application state and sample files.
Windows
- Go to Control Panel > Programs > Programs and Features.
- From the list of programs, right-click on the Tableau product and select Uninstall/Change.
- From the Modify Setup menu, select Uninstall.
- Navigate to C:/Program Files/Tableau.
- Delete the Tableau <version> folder for the version of Tableau product that you uninstalled.
Mac
- From the Applications folder, delete the Tableau application.
- From your Documents folder, delete My Tableau Repository. Be sure to preserve any user-created files. As an alternative to deleting My Tableau Repository, you can rename the folder. For example: My Tableau Repository Backup.
- From Preferences in the Library folder, delete all files whose names begin with com.tableau.
- From Saved Application State in the Library folder, delete all folders whose names begin with com.tableau.
Some folders are hidden on the Mac.
- To show hidden folders, press Command+Shift+Dot.
- To navigate to hidden folders:
- In Finder, select Go > Go To Folder... (Command+Shift+G).
- In dialog box, type the folder name such as ~/Library/Preferences.
The ~ is a shortcut for the current user's Home directory, located at /Users/<username>. If Tableau Desktop or Tableau Prep is used by multiple users on the affected computer, repeat steps 2 to 4 for each user.