Title: Plugin updates
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Plugin updates

 *  [Johnners](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnners/)
 * (@johnners)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-updates-2/)
 * I can’t update any of my plugins. When I try I get the error message “could not
   remove the old plugin”. I’ve tried deleting them and I can’t do that either: “
   Plugin could not be deleted due to an error: Could not fully remove the plugin”.
   I’ve reinstalled 3.0.1 and that’s made no difference.

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 *  Anonymous User
 * (@anonymized-3085)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-updates-2/#post-1674441)
 * you may need to FTP to your site and check the permissions on the files, or just
   upload/delete via FTP.
 *  Thread Starter [Johnners](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnners/)
 * (@johnners)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-updates-2/#post-1674443)
 * Sorry – excuse my ignorance – how do I delete via FTP?
 *  Anonymous User
 * (@anonymized-3085)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-updates-2/#post-1674449)
 * well first off you would need an FTP client (ie software) then set up the connection
   to your site (ftp address,username,password) then it would be as simple as deleting
   off your hard drive.
 *  Thread Starter [Johnners](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnners/)
 * (@johnners)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-updates-2/#post-1674452)
 * Thanks 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [Johnners](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnners/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-updates-2/#post-1674452)
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