Great module! I was surprised to see I had a lot of available modules but not installed. Is there a way I can remove these modules for the system? I didn't realise they were still around and am concerned they are bloating my installation. Is it a matter of deleting tables from mysql?

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clemens.tolboom’s picture

clemens.tolboom
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Location Groningen, 🇳🇱/🇪🇺
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You could call this a drupal flaw ... not cleaning up the system tables. But my message is not correct. The modules where once installed and then removed and the system table contains their remains.

You could remove them but you should be careful :)

I think I will add this cleanup in my drush_sm project.

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rsvelko commented

clarification: there is a 'system' table in drupal.

Sometimes modules' names stay in that table after uninstall - I dont remember why but it is not a big deal... It is ok to leave things that way - no slowdown or clutter in your site....

If you know how to and have the 5 minutes for that - go into the system table with phpmyadmin or sth. and remove the lines for the corresponding modules...

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clemens.tolboom
Primary language Dutch
Location Groningen, 🇳🇱/🇪🇺
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Version: 6.x-1.1 » 6.x-2.x-dev
Status: Active » Fixed

This message is now only visible when the --verbose switch is used and rephrased.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.