Title: can’t remove plugin
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# can’t remove plugin

 *  Resolved [scrltotara](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scrltotara/)
 * (@scrltotara)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-remove-plugin/)
 * I installed Events Calendar, then found another one that turns out to be the 
   same calendar, only an older version. I installed the plugin, but did not activate
   it. Once I realized they were the same, I tried to delete the old version, but
   it won’t delete. I deleted the events-calendar directory via FTP and it still
   shows up. It won’t upgrade automatically or delete. I’m not sure what else to
   do? Even if I upload the OLD version and try to upgrade that, it won’t do it.
 * It must have something to do with the version stored in the DB, but I can’t find
   any SQL statements in the plugin to check versions.
 * Help!

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 *  [figaro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/figaro/)
 * (@figaro)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-remove-plugin/#post-972830)
 * Do you see it in the active plugins field in the options table in your database?
   If so, try deleting it from there. If this plugin created additional tables in
   your db and they are still there, then you may need to drop them as well…I’m 
   not familiar with the plugin, so you’ll just need to look and see if additional
   tables were created.
 *  Thread Starter [scrltotara](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scrltotara/)
 * (@scrltotara)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-remove-plugin/#post-973024)
 * Well, I fixed it.
 * The plugin had uploaded nested files inside the plugins folder that didn’t show
   via FTP. Once I SSHed in, I could see them all and delete them that way. Odd.
   
   🙂

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 * Last reply from: [scrltotara](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scrltotara/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-remove-plugin/#post-973024)
 * Status: resolved

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