Title: plugin data storage location? database
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# plugin data storage location? database

 *  Resolved [itsmefarhan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/itsmefarhan/)
 * (@itsmefarhan)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-data-storage-location-database/)
 * Hi.
 * First of all great plugin.
 * A quick question, where does this plugin stores all the data. I noticed the size
   of my website’s database has increased exponentially in last few weeks, and I
   also installed this plugin within this time period. So I’m wondering if sucuri
   is adding data to the database table which in turn increased the size.
    [Screenshot](https://www.dropbox.com/s/pzho6blu992k75r/Screenshot240-28-06-2016.png?dl=0)
   If/when I delete the plugin, it will automatically delete the plugin tables from
   database, right?
 * Thanks,
    Farhan
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/sucuri-scanner/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/sucuri-scanner/)

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 *  [yorman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yorman/)
 * (@yorman)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-data-storage-location-database/#post-7522761)
 * Most of the data is stored in plain text files here [1] the database is used 
   simply to keep the settings, they can be located in the _“wp\_options”_ table
   with the prefix _“sucuriscan”_. If you initiate the deactivation process the 
   plugin will delete these options [2] from the database as well as the plain text
   files from that directory.
 * Alternatively, in the next version of the plugin _(that we will release soon)_
   we have deleted all references to the database, the new code will not write into
   the database anymore, it will store everything in that folder mentioned above
   in plain text files. If you want, you can install the development version of 
   the code [3] to get the new plugin working in your website before we release 
   the new version publicly.
 * [1] `/wp-content/uploads/sucuri/`
    [2] [https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/sucuri-scanner/trunk/uninstall.php](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/sucuri-scanner/trunk/uninstall.php)[
   3] [https://github.com/cixtor/sucuri-wordpress-plugin/archive/master.zip](https://github.com/cixtor/sucuri-wordpress-plugin/archive/master.zip)
 *  Thread Starter [itsmefarhan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/itsmefarhan/)
 * (@itsmefarhan)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-data-storage-location-database/#post-7522762)
 * Great thanks for your detailed reply. I’ll definitely checkout the new version.
   Thumbs up for this awesome plugin. 🙂
 * Thanks,
    Farhan

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