How to remove an old plugin for vbb?

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  1. ASSEMbler

    ASSEMbler Administrator Staff Member

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    We have two plugins that are outdated and have no modern equivalent.

    I was wondering if anyone has had any experience in removing
    plugins from vbb after install?

    I don't want to have these phantom fields in the database
    mess up the new vbb install.
     
  2. Hellcat

    Hellcat Robust Member

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    Plugins or "Products"?

    The later ones should come with unintall code but no guaranty it'll run properly, plugins usually don't alter the DB (must be done maually AFAIK).

    In the end I'd say it's about looking at the intall code of the plugin/product and see what it alters and then check if everything is gone after uninstall.
     
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  3. retro

    retro Resigned from mod duty 15 March 2018

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    Backup db, do fresh install, import db and you should be fine.
     
  4. Taucias

    Taucias Site Supporter 2014,2015

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    Wouldn't that bring in the bad table extensions though?
     
  5. Hellcat

    Hellcat Robust Member

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    Not if the vB Import/Export is used, that one only fetches the data it needs (posts, threads, users....) and feeds it into the new DB.
    However that'll leave out any other *wanted* data from extensions....
     
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