How do I uninstall Coppermine?

[moseph]

Hi, how do I uninstall Coppermine?  Is there a script that does it for me?  Or can I just safely delete the coppermine files?

I am going to try to re-install Coppermine again because of problems I can't understand and solutions I can't find anywhere on this forum.

Thanks.

[Joachim Müller]

steps to totally get rid of coppermine:

• delete all files in your coppermine dir
• use a tool like phpMyAdmin and delete all coppermine tables (by default prefixed with "cpg11d_", depends on what you set the prefix to when initially installing coppermine)[/list:u]GauGau

[jenna]

Is the first option safe? I mean does my phpBB go BOOM if I delete Coppermine?

[Nibbler]

Perfectly safe, just don't drop the database if they are sharing one.

[jenna]

All right, thank you.

[jenna]

Ush, got to ask this.. because I ain't no database wizard.

My Coppermine shares a database with phpBB, originally it is phpBB's database. So what files should I watch not to destroy?

SQL -folder? Bridge?

[Nibbler]

You can delete all the files.

[Joachim Müller]

phpbb (or any other bbs app that coppermine is bridged with) doesn't even "know" that coppermine existed on your server and that it uses the same database tables. Coppermine does not write anything to your phpbb tables, nor does the coppermine install modify your bbs table structure. Only coppermine code contains reference to your bbs app, not vice versa. It's completely safe to delete coppermine and only keep your bbs. The only thing that will of course break are links within your bbs that point to coppermine files - but such links don't exist by default, they can only be there if you (or your users) have deliberately set them up.
To be safe (or if you're completely paranoid), back up everything before deleting it - this way, you could go back in case anything breaks (but this will only happen, as I said above, if you have set up links from your bbs to coppermine).
To repeat what has been said above: do not drop the entire database; only delete the tables used by coppermine - they can easily be spotted, as they all have the same prefix (usually "cpgXX_", where XX is the version number of your coppermine install).

Joachim