Title: Plugin disappeared
Last modified: February 17, 2021

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# Plugin disappeared

 *  Resolved [Garth Penglase](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gpenglase/)
 * (@gpenglase)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-auto-removed/)
 * Not a big issue, but as per
    [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-has-vanished/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-has-vanished/)
   [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-gone-2/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-gone-2/)
 * …over the years I have had a number of sites (somewhere between 10 and 20 now)
   of the many that we manage where the backwpup plugin is removed from the db, 
   but the folder remains.
 * We delete the folder and re-install – it is an infrequent but repeating issue.
 * It is not the only plugin that this has happened to – of more recent times Elementor
   has been another one that also gets removed – usually at the same time, though
   not as often as backwpup. Almost all of our sites have a standard set of premium
   OceanWP/Elementor/MainWP plugin combos as a base set, and most of them never 
   suffer this issue. It could be another plugin but there has been no consistency
   among the additoinal plugins that aren’t used on many other sites
 * The last round of this happening seemed mainly to be after the WP 5.6 update 
   but I may be wrong about the timing.
    -  This topic was modified 5 years, 3 months ago by [Garth Penglase](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gpenglase/).

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 *  [happyAnt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/duongcuong96/)
 * (@duongcuong96)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-auto-removed/#post-14068745)
 * Hello [@gpenglase](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gpenglase/)
    I found an
   interesting thread about your issue here, the author also uses MainWP too, maybe
   you could take a look: [https://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/my-plugins-keep-randomly-getting-deleted/](https://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/my-plugins-keep-randomly-getting-deleted/)
   I hope that it could help ^^
 *  [happyAnt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/duongcuong96/)
 * (@duongcuong96)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-auto-removed/#post-14106719)
 * since we haven’t heard back from you, I’m going to mark it as resolved.
    If you’re
   still having problems, feel free to let us know 😉

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 * ![](https://ps.w.org/backwpup/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=3236141)
 * [BackWPup – WordPress Backup & Restore Plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/backwpup/)
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 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [happyAnt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/duongcuong96/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-auto-removed/#post-14106719)
 * Status: resolved