Title: Can't Uninstall
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Can't Uninstall

 *  Resolved [rnewkirk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rnewkirk/)
 * (@rnewkirk)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-uninstall-1/)
 * I can’t seem to fully uninstall & delete the plugin. I’m getting the error “Plugin
   could not be deleted due to an error: Could not fully remove the plugin(s) wponlinebackup/
   wponlinebackup.php.”
 * I’ve tried deleting via FTP, but it says directory not empty. The directory in
   question is wponlinebackup/tmp/full
 * Any help would be much appreciated.
    Thanks
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wponlinebackup/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wponlinebackup/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Online Backup](https://wordpress.org/support/users/driskell/)
 * (@driskell)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-uninstall-1/#post-3279880)
 * Hi rnewkirk,
 * Not sure the issue, never known that to happen. Have you tried again? Maybe it
   was a windows server and some files were still open which are now closed.
 * Usually deleting via FTP will work. Check your FTP client log for any errors 
   when deleting files. Usually it will try delete a file, error, but then continue
   and try to delete the directory anyways, thus the directory not empty error. 
   So should be another error before that one that might help find problem.
 * Jason
 *  Thread Starter [rnewkirk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rnewkirk/)
 * (@rnewkirk)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-uninstall-1/#post-3279888)
 * Thanks for the reply Jason.
    It ended up being a permissions issue on my server
   end. All is good now – thanks again for the reply
 *  [cpabramo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cpabramo/)
 * (@cpabramo)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-uninstall-1/#post-3279910)
 * What did you do to fix this? I am having this same issue, and I don’t know what
   I need to do. I am on Amazon EC2.
 *  Thread Starter [rnewkirk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rnewkirk/)
 * (@rnewkirk)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-uninstall-1/#post-3279911)
 * I actually got in touch with my hosting co and they changed permissions for me.
   I wasn’t able to via FTP for some reason, the 777 wouldn’t stick.
    After that,
   I was able to delete and complete the uninstall. I am on VPS

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 * Last reply from: [rnewkirk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rnewkirk/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-uninstall-1/#post-3279911)
 * Status: resolved