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How remove unwanted languages and printers?

WannaGoMac

WannaGoMac

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I want to recover some hard drive space on a macbook. Is there a way to remove the unwanted languages and printer drivers from OS X without re-installing from scratch?

I found this tool
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/7758

that will remove the un-wanted languages. Any ideas for printers?
 
Thanks so much.

Will removing extra printer drivers recover much disk space?
 
TheAnswer said:
Make sure when using Monolingual that you don't delete the Architectures that your Macbook will need to run PowerPC apps under emulation.
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I figured I just keep to the languages tab and uncheck the languages I don't need and don't touch the other tabs. That should be safe right?
 
TheAnswer said:
Make sure when using Monolingual that you don't delete the Architectures that your Macbook will need to run PowerPC apps under emulation.
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I have a question. Will it still screw up the computer if a person doesn't use PPC only apps on an Intel mac?
I have a PPC Mac and I used monolingual to remove all the Intel code from Universal Apps, will that damage my computer in any way?
 
WannaGoMac said:
I figured I just keep to the languages tab and uncheck the languages I don't need and don't touch the other tabs. That should be safe right?
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You should be safe...the earlier versions of Monolingual didn't have them on a separate tab...so good to see they've made it harder to mess up.

dartzorichalcos said:
I have a question. Will it still screw up the computer if a person doesn't use PPC only apps on an Intel mac?
I have a PPC Mac and I used monolingual to remove all the Intel code from Universal Apps, will that damage my computer in any way?
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I think you're safe...I haven't heard of that causing problems. Obviously if you start having problems with any particular app, you might want to note that if you create a thread about it on here. BTW, How much space did that save you?
 
TheAnswer said:
You should be safe...the earlier versions of Monolingual didn't have them on a separate tab...so good to see they've made it harder to mess up.



I think you're safe...I haven't heard of that causing problems. Obviously if you start having problems with any particular app, you might want to note that if you create a thread about it on here. BTW, How much space did that save you?
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Thanks!

Wish there was an easy way to remove unwanted printers as well! The other stuff is too complicated to be worth it :)
 
I just used monolingual, then deleted my entire printers folder contents (just the brand-name directories for specific model printers) then reinstalled my epson and HP drivers and tested everything works great.

Before: 89.03GB free
After: 93.11GB free

So, I released 4.08GB just in dead weight.

I'm not sure, but my MacBook even FEELS lighter ;)
 
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