{"id":8421065,"date":"2016-11-10T20:59:19","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T20:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/cannot-update-to-3-8-or-activate\/"},"modified":"2016-11-10T20:59:19","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T20:59:19","slug":"cannot-update-to-3-8-or-activate","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/cannot-update-to-3-8-or-activate\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannot Update to 3.8 or Activate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am trying to update to 3.8 and the update fails because &#8220;Update Failed: Could not remove the old plugin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t Activate the plugin either. I&#8217;ve tried turning off all plugins, then running the update, but still the error. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve used this Plugin for many years, this is the first issue I&#8217;ve had. I&#8217;m worried that if I completely uninstall then reinstall, all the meta data etc for my hundreds of posts will be lost. <\/p>\n<p>TIA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-8421065","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-update"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/8421065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/8421065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8421065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}