Title: Cannot delete or update plugin
Last modified: October 22, 2020

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# Cannot delete or update plugin

 *  Resolved [hexified](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hexified/)
 * (@hexified)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-delete-or-update-plugin/)
 * For whatever reason I can’t delete or update this plugin anymore. When I try 
   to delete it, it says it can’t find the folder which clearly exists in FTP and
   when I try to update it, it says it doesn’t have the permission that it does 
   to do so. So now I’m stuck with a constant ‘update reminder’ I can’t solve.

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 *  Plugin Author [Christopher Finke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cfinke/)
 * (@cfinke)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-delete-or-update-plugin/#post-13569747)
 * It sounds like a file permissions issue with the folder; you may have “read” 
   permissions but not “write” (which you’d need in order to update it). Your webhost
   should be able to help you fix this.

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