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Re: Is it safe to delete old form templates from FT-01-xx folders under SharePointRoot\Template\Features ?

JohnLiu — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 04:46:20 GMT

Going to bump this thread again. So this morning, one of our dev web front ends died with no space (yes somebody should have been monitoring it, but it's a dev server no one cleaned it up). Anyway turns out we've got over 10GB of folders of previous versions of this form. What do you guys do to keep this folder clean (small?)

Re: Is it safe to delete old form templates from FT-01-xx folders under SharePointRoot\Template\Features ?

Scott Rooke — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:15:53 GMT

John -

I have been wondering about this as well. Is there a cleaner way of cleaning this up? It seems like a lot of manual steps for something that should be self-cleansing.

Scott

Is it safe to delete old form templates from FT-01-xx folders under SharePointRoot\Template\Features ?

JohnLiu — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 05:22:08 GMT

Hi,

We're using central admin approved InfoPath 2010 forms extensively, and have made regular changes and deployment in our dev environments.

Overtime, central admin management pages became slower and slower, and occasionally, we'd see giant 2-GB log files (most of them saying delete FT-01-xxx folders).

I've noticed that Form Server seems to be keeping multiple copies of old form templates around, and tried these steps:

1. Retract my form from site collections.
2. Remove form from farm (heh! try saying that super quick 10 times)
3. Now I go and see my SharePointRoot\Template\Features folder and see that there are still many folders left behind.

4. Manually move (because I'm scared to delete them) them to another folder elsewhere so Form Server can't see this folder anymore.
5. Go back to central administration and re-upload / activate to site collection.

Results:
1. All my existing forms seems to continue to work.
2. The central admin pages are a LOT quicker.
3. No more giant log files.

But I'm not sure what they are used for, can they really be safely deleted?