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Is it safe to delete AppleSpell?

I'm completely sick of AppleSpell.service hogging my RAM. I've tried some solutions I found online, but they were useless, so I inspected the process and got this:


Process: AppleSpell [76390]

Path: /System/Library/Services/AppleSpell.service/Contents/MacOS/AppleSpell

Load Address: 0x102a93000

Identifier: com.apple.AppleSpell

Version: 1.7.1 (131.1)

Build Info: ProofReader-131001000000000~2

Code Type: X86-64 (Native)

Parent Process: launchd [116]


I fired up the Terminal, tried to delete AppleSpell and got this:


Mac:MacOS mac$ rm AppleSpell

override rwxr-xr-x root/wheel compressed for AppleSpell?


Is it safe to go ahead? I don't want to see that process popping up ever again.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Feb 10, 2016 7:48 AM

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Is it safe to delete AppleSpell?

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