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Mac Trick of the Month

November 2, 2007 by paul


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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  1. on November 2, 2007 at 2:12 pm gizo

    Do that for each app, one by one? How much space are we talking here? kilobytes? megabytes? gigabytes?


  2. on November 2, 2007 at 2:52 pm Paul

    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.


  3. on November 5, 2007 at 8:16 am sheol

    hrm weird, in Leopard I can’t hit the minus button. I had everything selected, unselected English and the minus button is greyed out.


  4. on November 5, 2007 at 10:33 am Paul

    Did you do an upgrade or a fresh install? You might try an app called Monolingual that does the same thing automatically.


  5. on November 5, 2007 at 12:55 pm sheol

    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 :)


  6. on November 5, 2007 at 3:32 pm Paul

    Hrmm, the first thing that comes to mind is that you’re not an admin user perhaps? Check in the System Preferences/Accounts window.



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