Uninstall Lotus Connections 2.5: Remove files
After uninstalling Lotus Connections 2.5, clean up your system by removing redundant files and directories.
Before starting
If you plan to install IBM Connections 3.0 on a different system, you do not need to complete this task.Ensure that WAS is stopped.
About this task
Data directories are file system directories that store feature artifacts such as images and documents that users created in the production environment. Before removing files and directories, ensure that you do not plan to use them again.If you want to remove all data directories, and if all of your data directories are stored under a single parent directory, delete the parent directory to remove all data directories.
To remove Lotus Connections files and directories...
Note: The directory locations in this task are based on the default locations selected by the installation wizard. If you specified different locations for the data directories during the installation, delete those directories instead.
Procedure
- Activities: Delete the following directories:
- AIX or Linux™:
- lotus_connections_root/Data/Activities/content
- lotus_connections_root/Data/Activities/statistic
- Microsoft Windows:
- lotus_connections_root\Data\Activities\content
- lotus_connections_root\Data\Activities\statistic
Note: Remove the following files, if they are present, from the app_server_root/lib/ext directory:
- commons-codec-1.3-minus-mp.jar
- commons-collections-3.1.jar
- commons-configuration-1.1.jar
- commons-lang-2.0.jar
- lc.config.svc-1.1.jar
- oatai.jar
- Blogs: Delete the following directories:
- AIX or Linux:
- lotus_connections_root/Data/Blogs/index
- lotus_connections_root/Data/Blogs/upload
- Windows:
- lotus_connections_root\Data\Blogs\index
- lotus_connections_root\Data\Blogs\upload
- Communities: Delete the following directories:
- AIX or Linux:
- lotus_connections_root/Data/Communities/content
- lotus_connections_root/Data/Communities/statistic
- Windows:
- lotus_connections_root\Data\Communities\content
- lotus_connections_root\Data\Communities\statistic
- Dogear: Delete the following directories:
- AIX or Linux:
- lotus_connections_root/Data/Dogear/favorite
- lotus_connections_root/Data/Dogear/index
- Windows:
- lotus_connections_root\Data\Dogear\favorite
- lotus_connections_root\Data\Dogear\index
- Files: Delete the following directory:
- AIX or Linux:
- lotus_connections_root/Data/Files/upload
- Windows:
- lotus_connections_root\Data\Files\upload
- Profiles: Delete the following directories:
- AIX or Linux:
- lotus_connections_root/Data/Profiles/cache
- lotus_connections_root/Data/Profiles/index
- lotus_connections_root/Data/Profiles/statistic
- Windows:
- lotus_connections_root\Data\Profiles\cache
- lotus_connections_root\Data\Profiles\index
- lotus_connections_root\Data\Profiles\statistic
- Search: Delete the following directories:
- AIX or Linux:
- lotus_connections_root/Data/Search/dictionary
- lotus_connections_root/Data/Search/index
Note: If you plan to install IBM Connections 3.0 on this system, complete these additional steps to manually clear out the Stellent environment variables in your Linux or AIX environment:
- AIX: Open the /etc/profile file for editing and remove any export statements for the LIBPATH and PATH variables that contain the <SEARCH_HOME>/dcs/oiexport path, where <SEARCH_HOME> is a WAS environment variable that points to the directory where the Search feature was installed.
- Linux: Open the /etc/profile file for editing and remove any export statements for the LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PATH variables that contain the <SEARCH_HOME>/dcs/oiexport path, where <SEARCH_HOME> is a WAS environment variable that points to the directory where the Search feature was installed.
- Windows:
- lotus_connections_root\Data\Search\dictionary
- lotus_connections_root\Data\Search\index
- Wikis: Delete the following directory:
- AIX or Linux:
- lotus_connections_root/Data/Wikis/upload
- Windows:
- lotus_connections_root\Data\Wikis\upload
Parent topic
Uninstall Lotus Connections 2.5
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