getting rid of localisations... possible?

arri

arri

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hi.

first of all, i know i need new hardware and a larger harddrive.
knowing that, i still have the following question:

is there a way to have osx install software without the localisations other than the current?
in other words, have it install (any) software ONLY with the currently selected localisation?

or otherwise, is there a way to get rid of all megabites occupied by all these localisation-folders inside application packages?
for instance, Safari occupies >20Mb on disk by default. if i erase all .lproj folders, except "English.lproj", it's only about 3.9Mb...

i could use that space right now...


thanks.
 
i did that, but that appearantly that just excludes system-localisation, not that for individual packages..
 
Monolingual does a good job. You can also check out Youpi Optimizer, both available for download through versiontracker.com
 
thanks for your tips.
seems like those solutions are all more/less hacks.
appearantlu apple wants all OSX-installs to be very friendly towards the whole world.
anyway, i'm going to try them, at least i don't have to do it manually
 
arri said:
...seems like those solutions are all more/less hacks.
appearantlu apple wants all OSX-installs to be very friendly towards the whole world.
anyway, i'm going to try them, at least i don't have to do it manually
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Not hacks, not sure what you mean by that.
These are simply utilities that allow you to remove some unneeded files - those provided for foreign language support. Almost all apps will have at least some of the support files. Those files don't do much except sit there unused. The utilities give you an easy-to-use GUI to remove them, with some others also removed, such as unneeded keyboard layouts, in some cases. Good luck finding them manually, as they are hidden everywhere, and can amount to at least 3 GB of files on a newly restored system. Even with the one-trick-pony utilities, removing the files can take most of an hour.
OS X does provide native support for many foreign languages, not needing language support kits, as in the past with the Classic OS 9 and older. OS X makes it easier for developers to support other countries, without needing to install auxiliary packages. If you would start a survey, I think you would find that a surprisingly large number of users work in multiple languages.
I think Apple recognizes this, and you see the result.
 
sorry i didn't respond for a while, i was traveling and working in other countries and there i experienced DeltaMac's point.
computers are running in localization of the specific country (german in this case) and it's very comfortable to be able to switch to english, just because then i know my way (even though i'm dutch, i prefere english..)

on my own pb i succesfully ran Delocalizer, which resulted in some extra gb's free disk space.

thanks everyone for you tips and replies.
 
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