My Powerbook has been lagging for a while now. Mostly due to the fact that my 100 GB drive is down to 1 GB of available space. I started the process of archiving to my external drive some projects I was done with and I was able to bring it up to 15.3 GB. I then remembered reading about an application that strips all extra languages that come with Mac OS X and all it’s applications. The worst thing that can happen is that I have to reinstall the OS, no big deal. I gave Monolingual a try and was highly impressed. Not only does it strip superfluous languages (warning: make sure u don’t remove english and us english, they are two separate options) I would never need but it also removes architecture specific parts of apps like the code for the new intel macs. These new universal applications include the application for both the powerpc and intel architecture but this is precious space I want back for my ever expanding 50 GB iTunes library, my 20 GB iPhoto library and oh yes, my work, I forgot that’s why I originally got the computer for.
I shaved off 2 gigs of languages and intel code.
Link: monolingual.sourceforge.net
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But if I take out various asian languages, or arabic, etc., what happens if I visit a website using those languages? Will it still display it?
monolingual doesn’t remove the fonts to view sites correctly in their language. it only removes the ability to use your computer with other languages. things like menus, error messages etc.
How long is it supposed to take? Because it’s definitely been working on my G4 for about 12 hours.
andy, it only took about 15 minutes for me.
OK, something must not have gone right. Everything seems to be effed. I may have to do an archive and install. It was a nice idea, though…