Uninstall foreign languages

Usually saves between 1 & 2 GB. Probably no real tangible benefits other than trimming down my unneeded junk. I also delete modem and printer preferences I never use. Something to do on a rainy day, and no have never had a corruption nor nave ever had to do a reinstall, except when I put in a bigger HDD. If you don't want all the unused language baggage then all I am telling the OP is that Monolingual is a very good and safe program to use to do it with.we all have our special little computing habits.

Pete

Like I say, each to their own and I have a 500gb drive, I don't use xslimmer but I hate knowing I have foreign languages on my computer. The OP asked and we gave them options. I also hate Dashboard and it's the first thing I've always disabled. Others love it, so there are certainly no laws on computer use. Again, each to their own.

Cheers

Pete

I have been using Monolingual

http://monolingual.sourceforge.net/

for a long time without a corruption. I remove every language except any that say English and also make sure I exclude any Adobe CS programs, it has never caused a problem. The trick of course is to remember to do it after each major update when the languages are reinstalled.

Pete

petermac87 wrote:

Usually saves between 1 & 2 GB

Mm. I'm with etresoft.

I see on Amazon a new 500GB at ~USD120. Let's make it USD150 with shipping and everything. That's 30 cents per GB. If there's any glitch or corruption from using Monolingual or Xslimmer, troubleshooting and fixing it would take, what? Say, 1 hour, conservatively… So, that'd be something like 60 cents/hour. I think my time is worth more than that.

fane_j wrote:

petermac87 wrote:

I hate knowing I have foreign languages on my computer

Them danged furriners gets in everywhar…

Sorry, I only have English on my computer. Is that a dialect of American you are speaking? lol Actually American terminology would be another thing I would like to be able to uninstall. lmao

Pete

petermac87 wrote:

fane_j wrote:

petermac87 wrote:

I hate knowing I have foreign languages on my computer

Them danged furriners gets in everywhar…

Sorry, I only have English on my computer. Is that a dialect of American you are speaking? lol Actually American terminology would be another thing I would like to be able to uninstall. lmao

Pete

LOL. It's 'de-install' Pete, if you really want to be purist about it. 😉 Please let me know if you ever find an app that can do that.

Personally I don't see the point of keeping junk like language files that will never be used on my HDD, despite that I have oodles of space left on my 750gb internal. I'd rather the space be used for something useful. Removing them will be one of the first jobs I do when ML has finished downloading and has installed itself successfully.

On the other hand, if you do leave them on your HDD, they can be considered as a sort of space-saving device that is easily removed if or when you realise that space is suddenly getting tight. Just whip 'em out and problem solved - temporarily.

Just need to remember never to remove any English language files. They could be being used by OSX and removing them will certainly cause trouble.

Xslimmer 1.8.2 or Monolingual.

If you are low on disk space then get a new hard drive. The only end result from trying to remove non-English languages is a corrupted operating system.

And how much disk space did you save?

I have seen a number of people use it and corrupt their system. It has no tangible benefits and many possible complications.

petermac87 wrote:

I hate knowing I have foreign languages on my computer

Them danged furriners gets in everywhar…

Ten months late to the party again I see!! lol

Uninstall here. Must be a different language.

Happy days

Pete