thedotmack/claude-mem · warning

[uninstall] Could not remove ${pluginDataDir}:

Error message

[uninstall] Could not remove ${pluginDataDir}:

What it means

At the end of the stray-path sweep, uninstall runs rmSync(recursive, force) on ~/.claude/plugins/data/claude-mem-thedotmack (plugin data). If the removal throws, it warns and uninstall continues, so the plugin data directory survives. This is separate from ~/.claude-mem (user memory data), which uninstall intentionally preserves.

Source

Thrown at src/npx-cli/commands/uninstall.ts:232

        if (!entry.startsWith('mcp-logs-plugin-claude-mem-')) continue;
        const logPath = join(projectPath, entry);
        try {
          rmSync(logPath, { recursive: true, force: true });
          removedCount++;
        } catch (error: unknown) {
          console.warn(`[uninstall] Could not remove ${logPath}:`, error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error));
        }
      }
    }
  }

  const pluginDataDir = join(home, '.claude', 'plugins', 'data', 'claude-mem-thedotmack');
  if (existsSync(pluginDataDir)) {
    try {
      rmSync(pluginDataDir, { recursive: true, force: true });
      removedCount++;
    } catch (error: unknown) {
      console.warn(`[uninstall] Could not remove ${pluginDataDir}:`, error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error));
    }
  }

  return removedCount;
}

export async function runUninstallCommand(): Promise<void> {
  p.intro(styleText(['bgRed', 'white'], ' claude-mem uninstall '));

  if (!isPluginInstalled()) {
    p.log.warn('claude-mem does not appear to be installed.');

    if (process.stdin.isTTY) {
      const shouldCleanup = await p.confirm({
        message: 'Clean up any remaining registration data anyway?',
        initialValue: false,
      });

View on GitHub (pinned to e2d1df569a)

Solutions

1. Close Claude Code so the plugin unloads, then re-run `npx claude-mem uninstall`
2. Fix ownership: sudo chown -R $(whoami) ~/.claude/plugins/data
3. Remove it manually: rm -rf ~/.claude/plugins/data/claude-mem-thedotmack

import { accessSync, constants } from 'node:fs';
const dataDir = `${process.env.HOME}/.claude/plugins/data/claude-mem-thedotmack`;
try { accessSync(dataDir, constants.W_OK); }
catch { /* close Claude Code so the plugin unloads, then re-run uninstall */ }

function isErrnoException(error: unknown): error is NodeJS.ErrnoException {
  return error instanceof Error && typeof (error as NodeJS.ErrnoException).code === 'string';
}

When it happens

Trigger: `npx claude-mem uninstall` when the plugin data directory is locked by a running Claude or plugin process (EBUSY/EPERM on Windows) or contains root-owned files.

Common situations: Uninstalling while Claude Code still has the plugin loaded; plugin data written under sudo; antivirus scanning the directory during removal.

Related errors

• [uninstall] Could not remove ${candidate}:
• [uninstall] Could not remove ${logPath}:
• [uninstall] Could not read selected runtime from settings, d
• [uninstall] Could not read settings for server runtime clean
• [uninstall] Could not write settings during server runtime c

AI-assisted analysis of thedotmack/claude-mem@e2d1df569a (2026-08-20). Data as JSON: /api/errors/12ec4881d9ccbb0d. Report an issue: GitHub.