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Monolingual: incredibly useful app!

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broncopde

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May 12, 2007
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I don't know how many others are using it, but I just came upon the open-source app Monolingual which removes language support for whatever languages you choose to remove. It can also removes architectures. And it's absolutely free!

I just opened up over 4 GB on my hard drive just by removing all languages except English and the Intel architectures off my Powerbook. I highly recommend the app and just wanted to give it some publicity on here cause I just got back much needed disk space without having to delete anything I use.

http://monolingual.sourceforge.net/
 
chscag

chscag

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Feb 17, 2008
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It is indeed a very useful free application as long as you know what its limits are and the damage it can cause if used improperly. :p

One note about Monolingual:

If you by chance have MS Office 2008 installed and use Monolingual, you will not be able to apply the MS service packs without first uninstalling Office 2008 and re-installing. For some reason removing languages from Office 2008 makes it think the copy is not legal. :mad:

That tidbit is from the MS Mac Office support folks.

Regards.
 
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brand

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Oct 3, 2006
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chscag said:
If you by chance have MS Office 2008 installed and use Monolingual, you will not be able to apply the MS service packs without first uninstalling Office 2008 and re-installing. For some reason removing languages from Office 2008 makes it think the copy is not legal.
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This is very good advice and could possibly pertain to other applications also. This happened on two different Macs and I had to reinstall Office on both. I believe to installer doesn't get the same hash from the application since it has been modified.
 
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BigPrince

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Dec 27, 2006
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Is is a cool app, just make sure you know what you are doing. Removing PPC architectures does not really save alot of space and screws with rosetta.
 
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JayMan8081

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Feb 20, 2007
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Dayton, OH
I would also agree that Monolingual is an incredibly useful app! I have an older G3 iBook with only a 10GB HDD. It was getting pretty close to full so I ran Monolingual and removed all languages except English and the Intel arch and got back 3 GB of space! :eek: That's 30% of my HDD back.
 
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sharky05

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Dec 9, 2007
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love this app most of the time. Adobe's misbehaving a bit with the updates - this could be to blame. Generally a great concept though.
 
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