Upgrading moodle, deleting old plugins?

Upgrading moodle, deleting old plugins?

by tim st.clair -
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Hi, when I upgrade or do a notifications check I get a screen that lists the plugins I have tried and removed again. For instance there are ones noted as missing from disk (yes, I deleted them) - so how do I convince moodle to no longer check for them?

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Re: Upgrading moodle, deleting old plugins?

by Ken Task -
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In the DB.

select * from `mdl_block'
will show all the blocks

remove:
course_contacts
course_overvew_plus
progress
repo_filemanager

select * from `mdl_modules'
will show all the activities/mods
remove:
certificate
tab

However, some of these may have also built tables.

'spirit of sharing', Ken

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Re: Upgrading moodle, deleting old plugins?

by Martin Dougiamas -
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You need to "uninstall" them.  Don't go messing about in the database directly if you can help it!

Go to Admin > Plugins > Activity modules > Manage activities and use the "Delete" link there.  This will clean everything up properly.

More info:  http://docs.moodle.org/23/en/Managing_activities

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Re: Upgrading moodle, deleting old plugins?

by tim st.clair -
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thanks for the tip

however, only ONE of the listed plugins actually mentions itself as being "missing from disk" in this tool. The others are still missing, but don't report except on the notifications page - so I guess I need the other database hack to get rid of them?