Good evening Chelanie and welcome back!
Thank you for reaching out to us.
We are sorry to hear about the struggles you have faced while attempting to update our plugins.
I would love to help you with this topic.
Since you already tried the most common solution, the next step would be to deactivate and delete Pro.
Once that is done, you can simply install the latest version fromĀ https://theeventscalendar.com/my-account/downloads/
Deleting The Events Calendar or its add-on plugins will NOT delete any of your data if you delete it via the WordPress plugin manager because that’s how we’ve decided to code our plugin.
FYI: deleting <i>any</i> plugin via FTP or cPanel’s File Manager (i.e. deleting just the files from the server) will also ensure a plugin gets deleted (if you delete the entire plugin folder) without removing any data from the database. This can sometimes be helpful to know in cases where a plugin <i>does</i> run an uninstall routine to delete data (again, our plugins do not run such a routine at this time and probably never will).
You can also see the difference when you click to delete a plugin, <u>like this</u>.
Let me know how that goes.
Best regards,
Geoff B.