Title: Deactivate Plugin
Last modified: May 18, 2020

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# Deactivate Plugin

 *  [athinaok](https://wordpress.org/support/users/athinaok/)
 * (@athinaok)
 * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deactivate-plugin-12/)
 * Hello,
    I believe your plug in is great, but what if I want to remove the plug
   in , the urls , and the meta data.
 * Could you please tell me the steps I need to proceed in order to correct remove
   the plugin?

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 *  Plugin Author [fifu.app](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marceljm/)
 * (@marceljm)
 * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deactivate-plugin-12/#post-12855340)
 * Hi, [@athinaok](https://wordpress.org/support/users/athinaok/).
 * Please access Settings > Metadata.
 * Then enable Clean Metadata toggle. It will be automatically disabled when finished.
 * Let me know if that solves your issue.
 *  Thread Starter [athinaok](https://wordpress.org/support/users/athinaok/)
 * (@athinaok)
 * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deactivate-plugin-12/#post-12856711)
 * When I click the button it instantly turn off.
    After deactivating and remove
   the plugin all images are off as it should be.
 * The problem was with plugin WP-optimize.
    When I try to smush the internal image
   the following error is created Could not find file for image: ID=45769, file=
   http://
 * Same issue with [WP-smush plug in](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/smush-error-could-not-find-image/)
 * Maybe I should the problem is created with thumbnail images thay left behind 
   and need to run regenarate thumpnails…
 * Last but not least I would like to thank you for the fantastic plugin you created.
 *  Plugin Author [fifu.app](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marceljm/)
 * (@marceljm)
 * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deactivate-plugin-12/#post-12857997)
 * Hi, [@athinaok](https://wordpress.org/support/users/athinaok/).
 * > When I click the button it instantly turn off.
 * That’s correct. The toggle is disabled automatically when the cleaning process
   is finished. It’s very fast by the way.
 * > Could not find file for image: ID=45769, file=http://
 * I don’t know WP-optimize or WP-smush, but of course they can’t optimize/edit 
   an external image. It might be a good choice to have they disabled when you are
   cleaning the metadata.
 * > the problem is created with thumbnail images thay left behind and need to run
   > regenarate thumpnails…
 * Are those plugins able to create thumbnails for the external featured images 
   too? Because FIFU doesn’t save any image, only URLs…
 *  Thread Starter [athinaok](https://wordpress.org/support/users/athinaok/)
 * (@athinaok)
 * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deactivate-plugin-12/#post-12859060)
 * I thought that wordpress create the additional image sizes locally.
 * I decided to keep the plug in. Thank you for your time
    -  This reply was modified 6 years ago by [athinaok](https://wordpress.org/support/users/athinaok/).
 *  Plugin Author [fifu.app](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marceljm/)
 * (@marceljm)
 * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deactivate-plugin-12/#post-12859674)
 * > I thought that wordpress create the additional image sizes locally.
 * WordPress does that for internal images, [@athinaok](https://wordpress.org/support/users/athinaok/).
   But WordPress can’t do that for external images. Since the images are not stored
   in your media library, there is no way to resize them and save them externally.

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