Answers.Body: <p>Unfortunately no, that's the only way to do it, Or should have uninstalled the extension prior to CiviCRM upgrade</p>
  
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Body: <p>Both Afform and Api v4 are indicated as obsolete extensions, but there is no &quot;uninstall&quot; button.</p>
  <p><a href="https://civicrm.stackexchange.com/questions/42014/how-to-remove-apiv4-extension">How to remove APIv4 extension</a> seems to indicate that you should manually delete the extension directory and remove the entry from the database.</p>
  <p>Is there no other, perhaps more, &quot;safe&quot; way to remove extensions?</p>
  <p>Or should we just write that down to bad practice on the part of the extension developer?</p>
  
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Title: How can I remove obsolete extensions?
ThreadText: # How can I remove obsolete extensions?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2022-09-22)
  
  Both Afform and Api v4 are indicated as obsolete extensions, but there is no "uninstall" button.
  
  [How to remove APIv4 extension](https://civicrm.stackexchange.com/questions/42014/how-to-remove-apiv4-extension) seems to indicate that you should manually delete the extension directory and remove the entry from the database.
  
  Is there no other, perhaps more, "safe" way to remove extensions?
  
  Or should we just write that down to bad practice on the part of the extension developer?
  
  **Tags:** extension, delete
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2022-09-22. Score: 1 | Accepted answer
  
  Unfortunately no, that's the only way to do it, Or should have uninstalled the extension prior to CiviCRM upgrade
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Are you saying that as long as it is not "obsolete" we can delete it using the "uninstall" button?  
  > **username_1**: Yes, uninstalling afform may lose all the forms you have created. But not incase of API4  
  
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