Tried to Uninstall/Reinstall and Tables are not Created

@sndinc You can try this.
– Deactivate Nextgen via admin.
– Via FTP remove the entire Nextgen folder in /wp-content/plugins directory. Remove also completely the gallery folder from /wp-content directory (do a backup first if you don’t have any copy of your original images).
– Even if in MyPHPAdmin you don’t see tables, try anyway this query:
DROP TABLE wp_ngg_album;
DROP TABLE wp_ngg_gallery;
DROP TABLE wp_ngg_pictures;
(If you had wp_ as prefix) – Do an entire DB backup first
– Back to admin, remove also any reference to Nextgen (pages, posts, shortcodes, etc.)

That’s pretty much exactly what I did…
Aside from “Back to admin, remove also any reference to Nextgen (pages, posts, shortcodes, etc.)”. Not sure what you mean by that exactly.

When I was testing out the plugin I didn’t really create any pages that I am aware of but that may not be true.

So after I have everything cleared out (or at least I think I do), I try to reinstall the plugin. I have done it via the “add new” option from the Dashboard and I have just uploaded it and activated it. In both cases, the install looks successful. I go to add my first Gallery, the pop-up comes up, I put the name in and save. It looks successful but it never is actually added. After it goes back to the Manage Galleries page, there is nothing there.

So I went to MyPHPadmin and I see the tables were never created for ngg.

It is like when I activate the plugin now it thinks everything is there so it doesn’t create anything. I have no clue what to do at this point. =(

Oh… based on another post I saw about clearing your cache. I also tried installing from a completely different browser (instead of clearing cache) and had the same problem.

I’m having exactly the same problem after uninstalling and re-installing.

@sndinc – You may also need to clean out the NextGEN Gallery related entries in the following tables: wp_options, wp_postmeta, and wp_usermeta

– Cais.

@sndinc – You may also need to clean out the NextGEN Gallery related entries in the following tables: wp_options, wp_postmeta, and wp_usermeta

– Cais.

That looks like a lot of data… and quite honestly, a very dangerous thing to try and delete. Do you have any more specific info to provide?

Is there a way to import the ngg tables again some how… maybe that is the easier fix. I don’t need the old data… but I need the structure to be correct.