I created a template and off of the template I created a slave site. The template was set to softlink the language and component folders however I am not finding that

1. I have changes for the language files
2. Some components (Mosets Tree) maintain their templates in the components directory rather than the main template folder

Is there a way to

1. De-link the language folder after slave site creation
2. How can I account for components that deploy templates, language files, etc. inside the components folder structure.

Thanks.

First the languages files are not stored in the /components directory but are stored in a /languages and in /administrator/languages.
Only some extensions like VirtueMart has the languages files in their own component directory.

If you want to replace the /languages Symbolic Link by a physical copy of the /languages, you have to delete manually the /languages and rebuild (re-save) the slave site using a JMS Templates where you will have defined that the /languages directory is a copy instead of a Symbolic Link

The languages files are normally common to all the slaves sites and should be shared.
If you make a copy, you will have to maintain manually the installation of each language files corresponding to the extensions that you will install in the future.

Will re-slaving the site overwrite everything in the file system and the database? I am afraid that I will lose some of the changes that I had made to the slave site independent from the master.