Which NTF-Files are needed in the notesdata (Classic / Full - Client)

Hi Folks,

We will upgrade our Citrix-Servers from Notes 6.xx to 8.5 this Weekend. Everything is planed, tested and works fine. So far so good. :slight_smile:

There are many NTF-Templatefiles that need to get copied into the Notesdata-Directory of all the Users. With about 260 Users, that’s quite an amount of Data.

Most of these Users will only use the classic-Version of Notes (Because of Memory-usage and performance). So it would be nice to give every user only the templates he really needs.

I guess there are some NTF-Files that are not needed in the Classic-Version (and vice versa)… arn’t there?

Did anyone do the same thing and has a hint for me?

Thank you very much!

Michael

Subject: remove the large NTF files

My datadirectory which includes a installation of Domino Designer and Domino administrator contains about 250Mb of NTF files. I would suggest deleting the largest one that are not needen:

Mail templates

dwa7.ntf

dwa8.ntf

inotes7.ntf

mail7.ntf

mail7ex.ntf

mail8.ntf

mail85.ntf

Discussion and document library templates

discsw7.ntf

discussion8.ntf

doclbm7.ntf

doclbs7.ntf

doclbw7.ntf

nntpcl6.ntf

Journal template

phonebook7.ntf

notebook8.ntf

Administration templates

decomsrv.ntf

domadmin.ntf

dommon.ntf

icl.ntf

statreop5.ntf

There are probably other templates you may delete also. Proceed at your own risk.

Subject: Not sure if you are on the right track

To the best of my knowledge, Notes Basic (most likely what you call classic) and Standard (Eclipse/Java) share the same code as far as ntfs are concerned even where they look different - like in the mail file.

So the question for not needed ntfs is a generic one. if you remove some of them, you better be more than conservative (like when removing discussion) or need to check again everything - including odd cases, like when desktop and or bookmark is messed up or pernames.ntf might only be needed during upgrades.

But this is just my guesses.