Uninstalling Movable Type

[spadin]

Hi Everyone,

 

I am wondering what I have to do to delete movable type from my account. I wan't to try a different blogging software and I just want to remove everything from the movable type that I currently have. Should I just delete all the files from the MT folder? I know there are some database tables too and I wouldn't want any leftover junk from a sloppy uninstall.

 

Thank you,

Sandro P.

 

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EDIT: I'm sorry I just realized this is the wrong forum. I the moderator can move to a more suitable forum I would greatly appreciate it.

Edited April 16, 2005 by spadin

[TCH-Don]

Hi Sandro,

I do not use MT

But I would use cpanel file manager to remove the folder it its in,

then use cpanel > MySql to delet the database.

[TweezerMan]

TCH-Don is correct - If you installed MT into its own folder, you can delete the folder to remove MT. But if you installed MT into your /public_html or /public_html/cgi-bin folder, you'd should only delete the files and sub-directories pertaining to MT. (You do not want to delete your /public_html or /public_html/cgi-bin directories).

 

You can delete the MT database from the 'MySQL Databases' page in your CPanel.

 

The other thing you may want to delete is the weblog pages that MT created. These will be in the 'Local Site Path' and 'Local Archive Path' directories that you specified in MT's Weblog Config. They will not cause any harm if they remain in your directories, but they will take up disk space.

[TCH-Bruce]

Welcome to the forums Sandro