Save Space by Removing Extra Languages from Mac OS X
February 5th, 2007 by Marcos
Monolingual is a handy tool that removes extra localizations from MacOS X and installed Applications. Buried within many .app bundles and other parts of OS X lie specific localization directories. In fact, if you wanted, you could probably switch your Mac to Chinese or German or Spanish at this very moment using the International system preference panel.
And while that’s kind of fun to show off the Mac’s multi-language abilities, you can reclaim a decent bit of space by clearing out languages you won’t use. I reclaimed 600 MB on my iBook. So, for those of us with laptops needing to squeeze out every last bit of space for storing astronomical data - cleaning out the unused localizations may be a useful step.
Nick Says
I saved about 3GB’s (!!!!) from stripping all the unneeded languages from my machine!
Jul 19th, 2007 at 3:57 am
Carla Says
WOW! I saved 2.7GB on my Powerbook and3.1 GB on my Macbook. Sweeeet!
Mar 11th, 2008 at 9:28 pm