I have been experimenting with lots of different modules to see if they will achieve exactly what I want. However, quite a few of them don't seem to have any option to uninstall themselves, and even when I think I have, they still appear in the list of modules.

I have even totally removed the module from the sites/all/modules directory - but still the option appears.

Some examples which have left a whole section in my modules list are photos, and CCK

How can I tidy this lot up so that they don't appear before I move my system over to a production environment

Comments

betz’s picture

Normal when you delete the module folder, it should be gone.
Can you give the whole list of modules that are in your sites/all/modules directory?

akc42’s picture

The following are the modules in the folder

/home/alan/dev/cf.ou/sites/all/modules/adsense
/home/alan/dev/cf.ou/sites/all/modules/advanced_help
/home/alan/dev/cf.ou/sites/all/modules/archive
/home/alan/dev/cf.ou/sites/all/modules/blogaid
/home/alan/dev/cf.ou/sites/all/modules/calendar
/home/alan/dev/cf.ou/sites/all/modules/captcha
/home/alan/dev/cf.ou/sites/all/modules/codefilter
/home/alan/dev/cf.ou/sites/all/modules/date
/home/alan/dev/cf.ou/sites/all/modules/db_maintenance
/home/alan/dev/cf.ou/sites/all/modules/fckeditor
/home/alan/dev/cf.ou/sites/all/modules/getid3
/home/alan/dev/cf.ou/sites/all/modules/image
/home/alan/dev/cf.ou/sites/all/modules/img_assist
/home/alan/dev/cf.ou/sites/all/modules/lightbox2
/home/alan/dev/cf.ou/sites/all/modules/pathauto
/home/alan/dev/cf.ou/sites/all/modules/preferred_format
/home/alan/dev/cf.ou/sites/all/modules/tac_lite
/home/alan/dev/cf.ou/sites/all/modules/token
/home/alan/dev/cf.ou/sites/all/modules/views
/home/alan/dev/cf.ou/sites/all/modules/xds.txt

Here are the list of modules in the modules list that aren't there

CCK
FileField 6.x-3.0-alpha5
FileField Meta 6.x-3.0-alpha5
FileField Tokens 6.x-3.0-alpha5

album photos
album photos 6.x-1.4-beta2
photos swfu 6.x-1.4-beta2

akc42’s picture

What is this directory xds.txt? its the one that seems to have the extra stuff in it that corresponds to the additional items in the module list

betz’s picture

dont know what it is, but try to delete it, and see if thats the problem