How do you delete the old version 5.10.7

PAUL48

Hello,
How do you delete the old version 5.10.7
Or will you do that in the future?
greetings from Paul

Alexandre

Hi,

You can uninstall it through the plugin/extension manager.

We will keep AcyMailing 5 until the end of the year.
Then people will have to move to AcyMailing 6 😉

attilakalmar

Alexandre And what with the still missing features? You cannot just finish the v5 line until the V6+ can do exactly the same at least: distribution list, select x users, import users/update them automatically from external db etc.

cita

Could you provide details about exactly what we should uninstall. There are a lot of plugins and modules listed in the extension manager. It is not clear which relate to AcyMailing 5 and which relate to AcyMailing 6. I don't want to uninstall any plugins that are related to AcyMailing 6 by mistake.

Also, It seems like we need to manually drop the tables in the database. Again I don't want to delete the wrong tables by mistake.

Could you please clarify?

Thanks

jvstratum

Hi,

Hi, if you want to uninstall AcyMailing 5 from a Joomla website, you can go in Extensions => Manage => Manage, search for "acymailing" and remove all the listed extensions except these ones:

AcyMailing 6
AcyMailing subscription form
AcyMailing - Joomla integration
AcyMailing JCE integration vversion 1.0.0

For future users finding this topic, keep in mind that over time other extensions may be added to AcyMailing 6, you can take a look at the "Version" column and the extension's description to be sure.
You can also install again the AcyMailing 6+ package after uninstalling AcyMailing 5, it will re-install any v6 plugin removed in the process

Muriano

jvstratum I did like this yesterday, and lost the access both to front end and back end of my site, as other users as well.

Luckily I had a back up.

But I am disappointed, since I wasted a lot of time for this job (migration from 5.10.21 to 7.6.2).

Now, I will try again, but first on a demo version of my site.

cita

I found this really quite confusing. It is very difficult to tell which extensions related to which version.

For the benefit of others, the versions of the extensions may not match the version of AcyMailing so you need to be careful which ones you delete. For my site the extensions that I needed to keep were:

AcyMailing 6.1.8 (component)
AcyMailing subscription form 1.0.0 (module)
AcyMailing - Joomla integration 1.0.0 (plugin)
AcyMailing - JCE integration 1.0.0 (plugin)

As jvstratum said you can reinstall AcyMailing 6 to ensure that you have all the correct plugins. However, please be aware that if you delete any of the above modules you may lose some of your configuration. I discovered that I had lost the subscription modules that I had created by inadvertently uninstalling the 'Acymailing subscription form' module.

You will probably also want to remove all of the data in the database that relates to version 5. This doesn't happen automatically so you have to do it manually. You can do so by deleting the tables that start with 'acymailing' (for version 6 they start with 'acym'). When you uninstall the Acymailing 5 component there is an alert with the SQL script that you need to run to do this.

I hope that this helps other people that are having the same problems!

puntino

Hi
I am facing the same problem. The version column does not help since there are other numbers than 5.xxx or 6.xxx, namely 3.x and 1.x where it is unclear to which version they belong and the date column also does not give a clear indicator which one belongs to which version. Why is it a problem for someone from Acymailing to give clear instructions? You should know your number system, shouldn't you?

Thx for some enlightening answer

jvstratum

Hi,

You might want to follow the easy way:

Uninstall everything related to Acymailing
Install version 6 again.

You can safely do this without loosing any data or config. But just to be sure, create a backup before you start.

kemble

HI there,

I am also confused and do not wish to uninstall everything and reinstall just in case I lose campaigns etc. (though I do believe it will leave the V6 database intact if you do not run the scripts, thereby re-populating the new install).
I have uninstalled V5 leaving the following acymailing files as per attached picture
I have two questions
1) can I uninstall all the 3.7 and 1.0 version as on the attached.
2) In another web I have also have an IProperty plug in on V5, Do I have to delete that also as my understanding of V6 is its a complete rewrite and does not use the old plug in system. Can you confirm please.

jvstratum

Hi,

In the fourth post from the top you can see what you need to keep. The plugins are not being used in v6, so you can safely uninstall those.

When you uninstall Acymailing all your data and settings remains in your database. So whenever you need to revert back you just have to reinstall Acymailing and you're good to go. In case you want to delete the database tables you have to do it manually in phpAdmin.

mihha

Guys,

you are really making too big deal from this 😀

If you want to remove AcyMailing 5 from your Joomla, just remove EVERY extension, module or plugin which has

AcyMailing in the name
version lower than 6.x in the version column

That is it.

AcyMailing v5 extension, modules and plugins have versions ranging from 1.x to 5.x
AcyMailing v6 extension, modules and plugins have versions ranging from 6.x

Regards,
Igor

ml44230

Yes, OK for ununstalling, but did somebody developped an SQL script to remove in the correct order all the Acymailing 5 tables from the DB ?
Regards
Michel

mihha

After the installation process in Joomla, you should have received a message with the SQL query whcih you can execute in order to delete the tables

ml44230

OK I got the query after uninstalling Acymailing 5

Great !
Regards
Michel

cirke

same problem here but with acy version 5 and 7 , i didnt install version 6
Why dont you make a tool to uninstall version 5 + version tables !

as is its a chaos

jvstratum

cirke

I just replied to this question in youir other thread. Please be so kind to post your questions only once. Thank you for understanding!

alexio

In case anyone bypassed the MySQL query script & instructions and now needs it, below is the exact message Acy posts directly after uninstalling the component.
NOTE: Change the table prefix ( 'x75_' ) to be the prefix on YOUR Database ... ;-)

You uninstalled the AcyMailing component.
AcyMailing also unpublished the modules and system plugins attached to the component.

If you want to completely uninstall AcyMailing, please select all the AcyMailing modules and plugins and uninstall them from the Joomla Extensions Manager.
Then execute this query via phpMyAdmin to remove all AcyMailing data:

DROP TABLE x75_acymailing_action , x75_acymailing_config , x75_acymailing_fields , x75_acymailing_filter , x75_acymailing_forward , x75_acymailing_geolocation , x75_acymailing_history , x75_acymailing_list , x75_acymailing_listcampaign , x75_acymailing_listmail , x75_acymailing_listsub , x75_acymailing_mail , x75_acymailing_queue , x75_acymailing_rules , x75_acymailing_stats , x75_acymailing_subscriber , x75_acymailing_tag , x75_acymailing_tagmail , x75_acymailing_template , x75_acymailing_url , x75_acymailing_urlclick , x75_acymailing_userstats;

If you DO NOT execute the query, you will be able to install AcyMailing again without losing data.
Please note that you don't have to uninstall AcyMailing to install a new version, simply install it over the current version.

For the Query-challenged, there's an easy way:

Acy version 5 table names are "xxx_acymailing_whatever"...
Acy version 7 table names are "xxx_acym_whatever"...

So, to delete all version 5 tables, simply check any box with "xxx_acymailing_etc", and Drop.
Remeber though, once you do this, as mentioned in the Acy note above, you will NOT be able to re-install Acy v.5 and have all of your data. ;-)