On Jun 12, 2009, at 1:19 PM, Jack Countryman wrote: > There is another program out there called 'delocalizer' that not only > removes the languages,
I think DeLocalizer is "abandonware" that stopped development back in Jaguar 10.2? It's no longer listed on the developers website (Bombich, who does CCC), and using it could be dangerous because it may remove some of the "official" Apple language resources. This has been a problem starting in about 10.4 where if you uninstall official Apple resources from some programs like Safari or Adobe products you end up breaking the application so it won't launch. Some say this is a safety issue, that the application files are being validated by checksum each launch to make sure no virus or trojan has inserted itself into the code. It doesn't seem to be doing a real checksum, they launch too fast for that, but I know they WILL break if you uninstall the official Apple languages (which are NOT uninstalled by Monolingual by default, and you SHOULDN'T add unless you don't use Adobe products, (I'm unsure if Safari still breaks in v.4.0?, but 3.x did break if you removed official Apple languages). > but also the regional/country settings that go with > them. It seems to get a bit more of the stuff most of us do not need > than > what monolingual does. Monolingual also uninstalls these, it just does this in a separate tab and removal process. In addition, Monolingual can remove all the CPU architecture you can't use, for example, for PPC Macs it can remove all the Intel code from so-called "universal" applications. It can even remove non-necessary PPC CPU versions, for example, if you own a G4 Mac it can not only remove the Intel code, it can remove specific G3 and G5 code leaving you a custom "G4 only" installation. This could be a problem if you later upgraded and wanted to clone or transfer your System, you'd need a clean install instead, but you could cross that bridge with necessary. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
