vBulletin - how to delete scheduled tasks?

**Colleen** · Apr 17th, 2008, 6:49 pm

I know how to disable a scheduled task. I am not asking that.

I have some scheduled tasks left over from removed plugins, I disabled them in the admincp but want to delete them as I no longer need them, it's pretty dumb you can't delete them, aside from going into the database and manually removing a scheduled task, how in vBulletin do you DELETE a scheduled task, is this not possible?

[MENTAL]WTF?![/MENTAL]

Am I missing something? It's a simple request, why isn't it built-in? This is retardo!

Kalina added 0 Minutes and 28 Seconds later...

I am waiting for your help, Dan. :P

**Big Dan** · Apr 17th, 2008, 7:02 pm

I haven't a clue, I'm toying around over in my vB 3.7 install and nothing is working. I even tried deleting the file from /includes/cron and refreshing the task list, the task is still listed.

Perhaps this is a bug to report to vB?. I mean we should be able to completely remove them.

Big Dan added 0 Minutes and 51 Seconds later...

wow a google for "delete scheduled tasks vbulletin" brings up this thread as #1. Google is fast!!

**Colleen** · Apr 17th, 2008, 7:04 pm

Holy moly, wow, really? <- at the Google

Yeah, I deleted my file too, mega dumb ain't it?

**Big Dan** · Apr 17th, 2008, 7:09 pm

I found this: Missing option to delete scheduled tasks - vBulletin Community Forum - Project Tools (no help)

Even the vB Docs don't mention deletion: vBulletin Manual

**Colleen** · Apr 17th, 2008, 7:13 pm

It's reported a year ago and they don't fix it and the guy replies:

"You're not allowed to delete default tasks."

Well hell, it's not a default task I wanna delete, that's crazy!

Technically, the plugin should remove the task when it's uninstalled, but it didn't and I didn't know and I didn't know it had other files uploaded, so now for a week members were being emailed this and I didn't know til one finally let me know to speak clearly, lol!

-----Original Message-----
From: Webmaster Forum <xxx@webtalkforums.com>
To: xxx@xxx.com
Sent: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:10 am
Subject: Could not find phrase 'ActivationEmail_v3_Day5'.

Could not find phrase 'ActivationEmail_v3_Day5'.

So unbeknownst to me I've had this stupid email going out and can't even fully remove the task, just disable it. Dumb!