Title: Errors in deleting plug-ins.
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Errors in deleting plug-ins.

 *  [relik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/relik/)
 * (@relik)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/errors-in-deleting-plug-ins/)
 * I get the following error from two of my three blog installations when trying
   to remove a plug-in:
 * Warning: getmyuid() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/digit84/public_html/
   deckchairs-themovie.com/news/wp-admin/includes/file.php on line 842
 * This would appear to be a security issue with my service provider, but I’ve never
   seen it before. To be accurate, I don’t recall having had to delete a plug-in
   before either.
 * Specifically, I was trying to install the Calendar Plus plug-in to see if it 
   would resolve the widget overlap that Calendar has in 3.01’s default theme. I
   figured I’d better remove Calendar first, and that’s where the problem began.
 * Since the automatic delete didn’t work, I simply deleted the files in the plug-
   ins folder, since the way I got them there to begin with was just basic FTP.
 * This resulted in an error that Calendar Plus wasn’t able to re-declare something
   because Calendar had already declared it. That made sense if the original program
   was still there, but it shouldn’t have been.
 * I can live with the security on my web-server being paranoid driven (it’s cheap),
   so long as I have a manual workaround that prevents this kind of problem. Can
   anyone advise on the process to manually remove (and/or deactivate) plug-ins 
   on 3.01 to resolve this problem?
 * I have no issues with editing code, I just don’t know where to start looking 
   and any advice is greatly appreciated. -R

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/errors-in-deleting-plug-ins/#post-1792623)
 * Try [resetting the plugins folder](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_to_deactivate_all_plugins_when_not_able_to_access_the_administrative_menus.3F)
   by FTP or phpMyAdmin.

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