Title: Cannot delete plugin
Last modified: November 26, 2022

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# Cannot delete plugin

 *  Resolved [melligeorgiou](https://wordpress.org/support/users/melligeorgiou/)
 * (@melligeorgiou)
 * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-delete-plugin-22/)
 * Hi, firstly, thanks for the plugin!
 * However, I’ve found a serious bug. When I try to delete the plugin after disabling
   it, an error message appears saying:
 * “You cannot delete a plugin while it is active on the main site.”
 * If I delete the plugin manually (by deleting the folder), it seems to break the
   mail log functionality and no other similar plugin will work. This forces me 
   to reinstall the plugin to get email logging to work again.
 * Tested on plugin v1.4 and wordpress 6.1.1
 * Thanks.
    -  This topic was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by [melligeorgiou](https://wordpress.org/support/users/melligeorgiou/).
    -  This topic was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by [melligeorgiou](https://wordpress.org/support/users/melligeorgiou/).
    -  This topic was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by [melligeorgiou](https://wordpress.org/support/users/melligeorgiou/).
    -  This topic was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by [melligeorgiou](https://wordpress.org/support/users/melligeorgiou/).

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 *  Thread Starter [melligeorgiou](https://wordpress.org/support/users/melligeorgiou/)
 * (@melligeorgiou)
 * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-delete-plugin-22/#post-16236867)
 * UPDATE: Actually, I just realised that W3 Total Cache was causing that error.
   If I disabled that plugin, I was able to successfully delete Log Emails.
 * Thanks!
 *  Plugin Author [webaware](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webaware/)
 * (@webaware)
 * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-delete-plugin-22/#post-16238958)
 * G’day melligeorgiou,
 * I have no idea why W3TC would cause that, but then it does not actually surprise
   me. That plugin causes much grief (but have not heard of it causing grief with
   this plugin before!)
 * cheers,
    Ross

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 * ![](https://ps.w.org/log-emails/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=2590631)
 * [Log Emails](https://wordpress.org/plugins/log-emails/)
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## Tags

 * [deleting](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/deleting/)
 * [Removing](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/removing/)

 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [webaware](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webaware/)
 * Last activity: [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-delete-plugin-22/#post-16238958)
 * Status: resolved