Is it possible to delete Global English without repercussions?

[StephenHo2]

Hi fellow AEM users,

Can we delete the Global English folder along with the pages originally built within it without repercussions?

We are currently working only with live pages with no inheritance with Global English.

I just want to make sure that deleting Global English won't accidentally break any other functionality inside AEM.

Thanks!

[narendragandhi · Accepted solution]

Hi @StephenHo2 

Are you referring to https://wknd.site/content/wknd/language-masters/en.html

bolded path from above link ?

Generally If you do not have any references to it in other pages and it's not being used, you should be good to delete it. You may still want to involve the Developer to confirm if you have this path configured as root path in component dialogs etc.

Hope this helps!

Thanks
Narendra

[StephenHo2]

Essentially yes it would be the English language master. The way we had our site organized, we had the Global English folder which was the site we started with out of the box. We then created copies of the global english to create the language masters for every country and language. Then using the language masters, we created live copies which we used to publish the sites.

We have since removed all inheritance to the language masters on the live copies and plan to delete the individual language masters for each country and language, but we are unsure whether the original Global English would have any hidden ties to AEM functionality.

[gkalyan]

Hi @StephenHo2 

Is there any particular reason behind deleting the Global English? If there is no business use case, I would recommed to keep as business always changes and you might end up requiring this in the future.

If there is a strong business case or some other pressing reason to remove it, as inheritance is removed, changes to Master will not reflect on the live copies. So, you should be good.

I would advise to :

1. Audit your content to make sure there are no references like @narendragandhi mentioned for components or properties, pages.

2. Take a backup just to make sure you can always go back. It is good to have a rollback strategy.

[StephenHo2]

Since we've removed all inheritance to language masters and are only working with live copies, the idea was to delete the language masters and global english as clean up. We are just trying to declutter our AEM sites but we aren't opposed to keeping the Global English folder around just in case.

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