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In updating a plugin for Craft 3, at one point I also renamed it, and at various times did things in the wrong order. At this point, Craft shows the old, unwanted plugin, but

  • it is not in composer.json
  • it is not in the craft_plugins table
  • none of its tables are in the database
  • its files have been deleted from craft/vendor/ns/plugin

On the CP Plugins page, if I click Remove, composer updates and says it is successfully removed, but it still shows up under plugins.

How does Craft still know of its existence? Do I need to put it back into composer to do a composer remove?

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  • If it's not in composer.json, it may still be in composer.lock. Try running composer update to make them match.
    – Lindsey D ♦
    May 10 '18 at 16:04
  • Thank you Lindsey. I did that, then tried to remove again. Same results. It acts like it's removing, but the plugin still shows up.
    – kr37
    May 10 '18 at 16:55
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    Weird... if you nuke your vendor and composer.lock and run composer update from the command line does that help?
    – Brad Bell
    May 10 '18 at 18:24
  • Have you tried clearing / removing the cache?
    – RvdB
    May 11 '18 at 9:49
  • Which cache? I've certainly done Clear Caches from the CP, but I don't think that's what you mean?
    – kr37
    May 12 '18 at 6:34
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Although I'm not in favor of the nuclear option in international politics, it works very fine and simply this case. Brad's suggestion of deleting the craft/vendor folder and composer.lock and then running
composer update
solved the problem immediately. Now I appreciate composer.

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