(R)emove (L)anguage (D)irectories

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In Brief

Free up space on SYS: volume.

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Updated:	14 Nov 2006
File Size:	513KB
License:	Free
Download:	/coolsolutions/tools/downloads/rld.zip
Publisher:	Bryan Keadle

Disclaimer

Please read the note from our friends in legal before using this file.

Details

It's great having an international NOS like NetWare that can accomodate many languages. However, if you have a single-language server, you can free up precious SYS: volume disk space by deleting *thousands* of unnecessary files contained within the 10's or 100's of language directories. For example, take a look at your F:\PUBLIC\NLS folder:

F:\PUBLIC\NLS

+---chineses

+---chineset

+---DEUTSCH

+---ENGLISH

+---espanol

+---francais

+---italiano

+---portugue

\---russki

Look familiar? There are many such directories on your SYS volume. The more separate products you have installed on your NetWare server, the more you have of these language directories.

I've long wanted to be able to easily delete these unnecessary language directories, so I finally created RLD.EXE (R)emove (L)anguage (D)irectories:

Run RLD.EXE with no parameters, and you'll be *KEEP*

A directory listing is generated. This part can take a while.

Once the list has been generated, RLD will prompt you with a list of the language directories found.

NOTE: Be sure to review this directory listing, and verify that a located directory isn't actually an important directory that just happens to be named the same as a language directory we are searching for. Note the window title showing the number of language directories found (103) and you are instructed to select any directories that should *NOT* be deleted. All unselected directories will be deleted.

You are then asked to confirm that your want to delete the number of directories not selected:

Directories will be quickly removed:

Once complete, you are provided with a summary results message box:

And detail is logged to (StartDir)\RLD.LST:

I ran this on a BorderManager server and freed up 257 MB in 558 non-ENBLISH directories!

When building my test servers in VMWare, it's good to get rid of these directories to keep the size of the disk files to a minimum. Also, you can run these against your NetWare product install directories (client, NetWare, etc.).

RLD /?

(R)emove (L)anguage (D)irectories

SYNTAX: RLD (StartDir) (Language_to_Exclude) (AUTO)

EG: RLD \\Server\sys ENGLISH

Scans specified directory path for language directories to remove. Current language directories identified include:

ENGLISH (EN)	ESPANOL(ES)
FRANCAIS (FR)	ITALIANO (IT)
PORTUGUE (BR)	DEUTSCH (DE)
NIHONGO (JA)	RUSSKI (RU)
KOREAN (PT)	CHINESES (ZH_CN)
CHINESET (ZH_TW)

Deleted directories are logged to (StartDir)\RLD.LST

Note: To free up even more space consumed by language FILES, check out this tip:
http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tools/16099.html

11-14-06 Update:

RLD.EXE (v1.1) has been updated to include additional (short) language directories:
cs
ct
ko
zh
pl
hu
da
fi
cs
ko
nl
no
sv

(Thanks to Richard Beels for identifying these additional language directories)

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Reader Comments

• Awesome utility. Even works on non-Novell products that have multiple language folders. One problem: "3353: Struct Error: Nesting of structures is too complex" when working with complex folder structures (c:\Windows, for example)
• Doesn't remove some language folders such as 'polski' and 'svenska', which are present in Novell Client 4.91sp4, for example.
• WOW, Thanks MUCHLY!
• Great. But id Novell could wite decent install scripts wheree install in english meant just that this work would be unnecessary!!
• Very nice. This even returned 79MB of space from my local ConsoleOne install.