How to delete forum, no longer required.

[lyndonaus]

I have been advised by site owner they no longer wish to have a forum as it is not being used its members, i have done searches on this site but am none the wiser.
Its easy for them to remove the forum from the site by deleting the link but then the dead forum is wasting space on this server.

[LiroyvH]

If you delete the folder and the database, everything should be gone.

[lyndonaus]

Sorry, CoreISP could you give me a bit more detail, please?
What folder where?
Database where?

Your dealing with a 79yr brain here it needs all the help it can get!

Thanks.

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

It is not very easy to answer that exactly.

Your databases should be available to you through your hosting control panel, and may or may not include other data as well.
The forum files should be in multiple folders, starting from your webroot or a folder under it such as /smf or /forum or /whatever.
If the files are in a folder structure of their own, it should be fairly easy to remove them.

I would suggest making an offline backup of the files and database before deleting them though, just in case of a change of heart.

[GigaWatt]

The forum should be in a directory that contains these files and folders... more or less. There might be some other files too, but the ones listed in the screen shot are a must.

I would suggest making an offline backup of the files and database before deleting them though, just in case of a change of heart.

Yes, I would also advise this.

[lyndonaus]

Thank you everyone, I realized that this not my problem although I set the forum up originally, I no longer have access to the main site files due to a vision problem ... someone else is in charge so its over to them... thank you again and consider this closed.

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

No problem