Mac Users: Have a Few Gigs of HD on Me (and Monolingual)

Thursday, 19 June 2008 Clay Burell Print This Post

Just spreading the love to my fellow Mac users by sharing Monolingual, a free open source program that saved me 4Gb of hard drive by removing the hundreds of languages localized on all my software, and by stripping the PowerPC files from my Intel MacBook. (If you have Adobe Creative Suite, you’ll easily save 2 or 3 gigs with a single click. Bloated with languages. Sorry, Cyrillic, you had to go.)

Be sure to run both the “Languages” and the “Architecture” programs. And buy me a beverage the next time you see me. Better still, donate a few bucks (or Yuan, or Quid¹ ) to the folks who created this useful tool on the Sourceforge site.

what the hell is a quid? [↩]

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5 Responses to “Mac Users: Have a Few Gigs of HD on Me (and Monolingual)”

Wesley Fryer writes:
No. 1 — June 19th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Excellent Clay, thanks for the recommendation and link– I think I read Miguel write about this awhile back but I’ve never tried it, and definitely should. I have made a switch from a 120 GB to 250 GB hard drive, but it’s always good to not waste good hard drive sectors, right?

I wish software installers would easily let people opt out of these unnecessary extra language installations from the start!

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Jason Priem writes:
No. 2 — June 20th, 2008 at 6:15 am
Quid = Pounds. It’s less formal, like Americans would say “bucks” for Dollars.

The tools looks interesting; I’ll check it out.

Jason Priems last blog post..New job!

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Hannah writes:
No. 3 — June 20th, 2008 at 7:19 am
Is it possible to keep one or two extra languages?

Hannahs last blog post..Confirmation is…..uhh….what?

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Talia Carbis writes:
No. 4 — June 20th, 2008 at 10:32 am
Serious about the quid?? I am agreeing with Jason. I’m thinking that is a quid as in a pound from the UK.

And thanks so much for this. Can’t wait to use it!!

Talia Carbiss last blog post..Planning A Wedding

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Clay Burell writes:
No. 5 — June 20th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
@Hannah – Yes, you select the languages you want to keep by unchecking them. Cool.

@Talia and Jason – Yep, funny – I’m a pretty well-traveled guy, but have never spent any time in the UK, outside of a layover at Heathrow once. So I’m pretty clueless about UK culture beyond what I’ve read. (Hey Talia, you going to Ustream your wedding? If so, let me know. Doing it for my own was a wonderful experience.)

@Wes – Now that you mention it, it _is_ funny that software developers don’t include the option upon install!

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