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Monolingual

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Has anyone used this program before, i tryed it today and i loved it, i saved 3.2gb of space by deleting all other languages i am never ever going to use,

is there any other program like this out there that will get ride of all the drives, and all other stuff u never need that come with mac os x

http://monolingual.sourceforge.net/
 
Yep, Monolingual is a great little program for saving some space. I just realized that they've finally (as of 1.3.5 released on December 27th) fixed the Rosetta issue. The default setting for the program used to destroy Rosetta on the Intel Macs, making it impossible to open Office and Adobe apps...glad to see they finally got around to fixing this.

Some people just do a clean install of OS X when they get their machine and customize it to install only the apps they want. You can delete things like printer drivers that you know you won't need (you can add them back later if you end up needing them). The iLife programs (specifically their support files) use up a ton of hard drive space...iWeb templates, iDVD themes, GarageBand loops. If you get rid of those apps, make sure you track down their support files too. WhatSize, OmniDiskSweeper, and Disk Inventory X are good apps for finding these large folders/files.
 
i really wanna delete stuff i wont ever use to gain back some HDD space so i cant install bootcamp. how would i go about locating and deleting all these languages and drivers and what not now that my macbook ha been up and running for 8 months ?
 
Star Destroyer said:
i really wanna delete stuff i wont ever use to gain back some HDD space so i cant install bootcamp. how would i go about locating and deleting all these languages and drivers and what not now that my macbook ha been up and running for 8 months ?
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Well, Monolongual will do the languages.
I'm not sure how to easily remove printer drives post-install (i always do a clean install and do it then).
You can also remove apps like Garageband and sound files etc. that you don't use to free up plenty of space.
 
WildCowboy said:
Yep, Monolingual is a great little program for saving some space. I just realized that they've finally (as of 1.3.5 released on December 27th) fixed the Rosetta issue. The default setting for the program used to destroy Rosetta on the Intel Macs, making it impossible to open Office and Adobe apps...glad to see they finally got around to fixing this.
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Hmm... I just downloaded 1.3.7, and that wanted to remove all architectures except Intel on my MacBook... scary...
 
WildCowboy said:
Really? I can't believe it's still doing this...I assumed from the Changelog that 1.3.5 fixed this.
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Ok, maybe it would have been safe, after all... I just got a bit paranoid from the FAQ:

Q. Should I remove the non-Intel architectures on my Intel based Mac?

A. You can use Monolingual to remove non-Intel architectures for your installed applications (even if some of the applications are PowerPC-only; Monolingual is smart enough not to remove PPC forks if those are the only ones in the universal binary). However, you should not strip the System frameworks if you want to use Rosetta. Rosetta needs the PowerPC code for all frameworks used by the emulated application and if it can't find it, you may see messages such as the following in the console:
/System/Library/Frameworks/Cocoa.framework/Versions/A/Cocoa:
mach-o, but wrong architecture
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Mitthrawnuruodo said:
Ok, maybe it would have been safe, after all... I just got a bit paranoid from the FAQ:
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You're right to be paranoid, given how long it's taken them to fix this, if it is even fixed at all. The FAQ has long said that (and was the only way users would know how to not bork Rosetta), but I assumed the issue was finally addressed. Now I'm not so sure.
 
WildCowboy said:
You're right to be paranoid, given how long it's taken them to fix this, if it is even fixed at all. The FAQ has long said that (and was the only way users would know how to not bork Rosetta), but I assumed the issue was finally addressed. Now I'm not so sure.
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DAMMIT! It removed my Rosetta Architecture by default. Anyway to return it?
 
ummmmm..... I am not positive. Although the version did allow me to select the architectures that I wanted removed.
 
You can see what version it was by going to the Monolingual --> About Monolingual item in the menu bar while the app is open.

Ever since they implemented the architecture stripping, you've been able to check boxes to tell it what to get rid of, but there is a default selection of checked boxes based on what system the program determines you have. Unfortunately, that default setting stripped PPC frameworks on Intel machines, rendering Rosetta useless.
 
Archive and Install.

And here is how to reimport your user directory after the reinstallation. You may have to reinstall a few apps as well if they don't work properly afterwards, but most should be fine.
 
They should remove the architecture stripping function, or at least make it an advanced option that is by default unchecked.
 
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