I can pretty much guarantee that the other en- directories are symbolic
links, this means when you go inside them you will actually be in the en-US
directory, so of course the files there are real.
If you are using a graphical ftp client to look at this, there may or may
not be any indication that they are symlinks. On the UNIX commandline, if
you ran a command like this:
ls -l
in your ssm_images directory you will see something like this:
lrwxrwx--x en-AU ->
/usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/html/eval/shopsite-images/en-US
lrwxrwx--x en-CA ->
/usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/html/eval/shopsite-images/en-US
lrwxrwx--x en-CX ->
/usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/html/eval/shopsite-images/en-US
lrwxrwx--x en-EU ->
/usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/html/eval/shopsite-images/en-US
lrwxrwx--x en-GB ->
/usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/html/eval/shopsite-images/en-US
lrwxrwx--x en-IE ->
/usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/html/eval/shopsite-images/en-US
lrwxrwx--x en-JA ->
/usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/html/eval/shopsite-images/en-US
lrwxrwx--x en-NZ ->
/usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/html/eval/shopsite-images/en-US
drwxrwx--x en-US
lrwxrwx--x en-ZA ->
/usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/html/eval/shopsite-images/en-US
Note that the first bit of the permissions string indicates that all of
these except the en-US are links, and they all point to the en-US directory.
Depending on what FTP client you are using, there are probably different
ways to see this same information. For example, in WS_FTP the DirInfo button
will give you a UNIX-like directory listing similar to the one I just
pasted.
You can go ahead and delete these files if you want to try and test this,
but I won't be responsible for what happens
I just hope that you back
things up before you start deleting.
-Loren
"Al Koehler" <al@axs2000.net> wrote in message
news:3CE07232.B7C11035@axs2000.net...
Hi Loren,
I did look closer and I downloaded all the files to my hard drive and they
are not empty, they
are all repeated buttons , logos, etc.. all the same images in all the
en..directories...
I'm not on a nt server.
Any thoughts was it installed wrong?
thanks
al
Loren wrote:
If you look a little closer you will probably see that (unless you are
on an NT server) the
only directory that is a real directory and actually contains files is
the en-US directory,
and the other en- locale directories are symbolic links to it, so there
is no extra space
being used there. I would recommend not deleting them.
-Loren
Al Koehler wrote:
Hi,
We have Pro ver 5.01.6
There are allot of files that we don't seem to use, like in our
sb/ssmimages dir... there
are sub directories like EN-us, and every other country, ie..EN-uk..
can i delete all the
images in these other directories, we only us the US version and have
no plans of leaving
any time soon.
thanks
Al
Posted: Mon May 13, 2002 3:31 pm