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Is it safe to remove language files and images with 1.5.8?

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JoelFan:
I know this may seem a stupid question, but I just want to be sure / safe ...

If I know that my CPG 1.5.8 is only going to be accessed by English fluent users, is it safe for me to remove the other language .php files in /lang/ and the other flag images from /images/flags/ ?

Αndré:
Removing the language files should be fine, but I don't know if the flags are used at some other places than the language manager (e.g. some plugins could use them or Coppermine itself). Why do you want to remove them?

JoelFan:

--- Quote from: Αndré on October 30, 2010, 12:00:21 pm ---Why do you want to remove them?

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To reduce upload/download times during backups and upgrades, and reduce file system clutter / overhead on the server (since I have dedicated servers and I host a lot of other users / sites, file system bloat can affect server performance especially during quota checks and nightly backups of the entire server when you have literally hundreds of scripts running across amny domains on a server).

So really any time I can reduce the number of files within a script and/or account whenever the files are not necessary, I will do so for optimized performance and overall efficiency. In this case, since the growing number of CPG's that I'll personally be running maintaining will only be utilized by people who speak English, then there is no reason to keep a large number of language files and flag graphics sitting in the folders of a bunch of CPG's on the server.

Thanks for the reply!

Αndré:
Then you should also remove the non-English docs, if you haven't done that yet. You could also delete some unneeded default themes and plugins.

JoelFan:

--- Quote from: Αndré on November 01, 2010, 09:34:22 pm ---Then you should also remove the non-English docs, if you haven't done that yet.

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Thank you for the reminder about the Docs. I usually do remove un-necessary themes (like Hardwired and Eyeball etc...) once a CPG is tested up and running, but I'd forgotten about the additonal language docs in the docs folder.

I'm sure the issue is trivial in small numbers, but when you have 50 or more CPG installs on a single server, removing all those extraneous files make s a big difference in overhead. Removing the extra non-eng docs will help make that difference too, thanks!

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