Remove 3rd party modules which do not modify the database structure

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Over the years, some modules - meanwhile greatly outdated - have piled up in my productive system. None of them did add anything to the database, they just read from and write into vanilla fields. With the upgrade to v8, I’d like to get rid of them.

I learned that it’s a complicated thing to remove other modules; but in this case I guess it should be doable. Can somebody provide some advice how to perform this task?

Thanks a lot in advance,
EG

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Just go to Administration → Modules → Modules, find them and mark for deactivation.
Once you’ve done it just run the “Update module wizard”.

If database structure is not modified that should work. Normally it will just fail if you added some required fields on the databse.

P.S: It may be a good idea to test first in a staging environement as something may break during the process
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