Open your Applications folder, select a program and press Cmd-I to get info on it. Expand the Languages drop-down, and select all the languages except English. Hit the minus button to delete them. Empty the trash.
Watch hard drive space come back.
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Do that for each app, one by one? How much space are we talking here? kilobytes? megabytes? gigabytes?
Depending on the app and how many languages you installed with the machine (probably all of them for you), it can be substantial.
Example: TextEdit – before : 22.1Mb, after: 1.9Mb. The more help files, the bigger the saving.
hrm weird, in Leopard I can’t hit the minus button. I had everything selected, unselected English and the minus button is greyed out.
Did you do an upgrade or a fresh install? You might try an app called Monolingual that does the same thing automatically.
It was a fresh install done by our Mac expert here at RMIT. I’ll check out Monolingual soon if I get the time, planning work around two weekends of complete building power shutdown at the moment
Hrmm, the first thing that comes to mind is that you’re not an admin user perhaps? Check in the System Preferences/Accounts window.