Nextcloud version: Nextcloud Hub 8 (29.0.3)
Operating system and version: Jammy LAMP 8.2
PHP version: 8.2
The issue you are facing:
I cannot delete apps that are not active. Only few allow “remove”, others don’t, and I do not want or need them.
Is this the first time you’ve seen this error?’
No. I have seen it before, and the forum is quite cluttered of the same question with different “solutions” that did not work for me.
Steps to replicate it:
Deactivate any app
Go to the deactivated apps and try to remove it
It will only be possible for some apps, not others.
rn I have over 25 apps that I cannot delete.
Just random picks"
suspicious login
Support
Related Resources
And many, many more.
How can I delete them properly? I do not need all that stuff, literally this instance merely has notes, passwords, talk and files. That’s it.
In other posts I read to disable and update NC and that they will disappear. I updated twice since disable and it actually updated those disabled plugins, but never removed them.
It also updated a plugin called spreed (can see that in the logs) and told it disabled it as incompatible. Yet, I never ever even had such plugin installed!
AFAIK they are part of the core, so you cannot delete them.
Also, I wouldn’t recommend that you blindly follow any random “hacky” recommendations you found in the forums, which in the worst case could have unwanted side effects. Just leave them disabled if you don’t want to use them, and call it a day. You wouldn’t save much disk space anyway if you could remove them.
That was the original name of Nextcloud Talk and for some technical reason, app names cannot easily be changed, which is why the internal name is still spreed.
Shipped apps can’t be removed (but many can be disabled) and they are installed and updated along with each Nextcloud Server release.
Non-shipped apps (i.e. those installed via the appstore or via the bundles) can be removed. That includes Talk (spreed) that you mentioned. You can simply remove it.
