Title: Plugins Vanished??
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Plugins Vanished??

 *  [gerryleonard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gerryleonard/)
 * (@gerryleonard)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-vanished-1/)
 * Hi I know this sounds strange but it is true.
 * After uploading bestsoft’s Captcha plugin via FTP, I noticed that somehow all
   the other (there were many) plugins vanished, and I was left with only one.. 
   this captcha.
 * How can this be possible?
 * My site was near completion, after months of work..

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 *  [bubb4dluv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bubb4dluv/)
 * (@bubb4dluv)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-vanished-1/#post-4741277)
 * You can see via FTP that all the plugins are gone?
 * If you haven’t made any backups yourself you should ask your webhost if they 
   have a backup prior to the “vanishing.”
 *  Thread Starter [gerryleonard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gerryleonard/)
 * (@gerryleonard)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-vanished-1/#post-4741278)
 * There was a backup plugin, but of course that too is now gone…
 * Yes the plugins directory is empty.
 * I am having a nervous collapse!
 * I will be asking web host re backup but if they do it will be an old one.
 * Is there any way to “undo” FTP?
 *  [bubb4dluv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bubb4dluv/)
 * (@bubb4dluv)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-vanished-1/#post-4741284)
 * No, FTP is the real deal. I don’t know of anyway to undo it. I’ve had my plugins“
   disappear” through my WP Admin, but the folder was really there when I looked
   via FTP.
 * A lot of web hosts will have daily and weekly backups, so you may get most of
   your work back.
 * Regarding the backup plugin, it is a good idea to setup database backups to be
   emailed to you on a regular basis.
 *  Thread Starter [gerryleonard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gerryleonard/)
 * (@gerryleonard)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-vanished-1/#post-4741289)
 * I still cannot fathom how they vanished… I didn’t delete them all.
 * There should be a warning box asking me am i sure i want to delete this plugin.
 * This didn’t happen
 * I’m using filezilla
 * How could uploading one plugin somehow overwrite (and wipe out) all the others?
 *  [bubb4dluv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bubb4dluv/)
 * (@bubb4dluv)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-vanished-1/#post-4741375)
 * Did you see anything in your filezilla logs? I have filezilla to ask before it
   overwrites or deletes anything. I have no idea how that could have happened.
 * Did your web host have a backup?
 *  Thread Starter [gerryleonard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gerryleonard/)
 * (@gerryleonard)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-vanished-1/#post-4741382)
 * This is how things went wrong:
 * I uploaded a captcha plugin with FTP to plugins folder
 * BUT despite it uploading I could not find it in plugins folder (i dont know why)
 * I then tried to upload it again by dropping it into the plugins directory.
 * There was overwrite warning BUT I assumed this was re the previous upload. So
   I ticked box to not warn my again (probably my big mistake)
 * I must have somehow overwritten all the other plugins with this one plugin.
 * Yet to me (a novice) this seems very strange and deeply frustrating.
 * If this is what happened it is a harsh lesson learnt, small errors are severely
   punished!
 * I hope to find out in a few hours if web host has a backup.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 6 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [gerryleonard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gerryleonard/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-vanished-1/#post-4741382)
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