I'm getting a new MBP (it's waiting for me at home) and I'd like to minimize the OS footprint as much as possible by getting rid of foreign language packs, fonts that I'll never use, and support for PPC apps. Is it possible to delete this stuff manually, or do I have to reinstall Leopard and deselect certain options?
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Whenever I buy a new Mac I always do a complete reinstall. It's safer IMO. You can then install only what you want/need. Once you've done that go through each iLife (and iWork if you have have it) application, go "Get Info" and scroll to the bottom of that window, find the languages listed there and manually remove all the languages you don't use. That will slim those apps down as well.
Is there an option for excluding PPC code during normal Leopard install, or is Xslimmer the only means of getting rid of legacy code?
While some people might want to do this to save disk space, I would like to point out to other readers that this is a dumb idea. PPC libraries are a standard part of the Mac OS X system. You won't be able to run any app built before 10.4.4 if you strip those libraries out.
I don't know why you would want to throw away that much backwards compatibility for 2GB of disk space.
XSlimmer is the only option for stripping apps of their PPC binaries. It also strips unneeded languages from apps.
I reinstalled, and de-selected all but English from the checkboxes but all the languages still got installed?!
I used Youpi Optimizer to remove them all after the install (although this can manually be done from the Get Info... window, it is very tedious).
I used Youpi Optimizer to remove them all after the install (although this can manually be done from the Get Info... window, it is very tedious).
I dont have any PPC code and have never run into a program I couldnt use. It seems like a safe bet to remove it.
I also support Xslimmer. I used it for the first time just at the end of last year, and haven't had any problems. For the 10GB or so of applications that it could slim, I saved about 5GB. For some applications (Mail, iChat, maybe some others) it reduced it to less than 10% of its original size (by removing PPC code and languages I assume).
