Prior to trying out Monolingual, I found and studied the following
helpful article:
http://www.jklstudios.com/misc/monolingual.html
Based on cautions about Adobe apps, I decided not to remove language
files from any apps (unchecking the Languages box - actually both
boxes - on Applications in Monolingual Preferences). At the last
minute I decided I would remove unneeded architectures from apps
(rechecking the Architectures box on Applications in the prefs).
After Monolingual had done its thing and I'd rebooted, I opened
Safari and got a dialog box about a Flip4Mac file having been damaged
and the need to reinstall Flip4Mac. OK, fine. Except that I needed
Safari to go get it, and Flip4Mac was killing Safari after the dialog
box. Tried reinstalling Flip4Mac from the old .mpkg, no dice, nothing
there to install. Hmmm. What do I do now, wait another 100 minutes to
clone back the backup? Fortunately, Flip4Mac's uninstaller still
worked. With Flip4Mac gone, Safari worked again, and I was able to
download Flip4Mac and right the Monolingual wrong.
I mention this both as a note on Monolingual and as a question about
what other little oddities I might expect as a result of messing with
the architectures in applications (I had the ARM and all G5 and 64-
bit and Intel ones removed). I hope I avoided the major disasters
that people who just kind of dived into running Monolingual have
reported.
Took about 50 minutes here. Monolingual reported removing 790 MB, but
the system came back showing 1.12 GB of additional space on the
partition. Either way, not bad.
Sean Carroll
[email protected]
Power Mac G4 AGP "Sawtooth" 1.0 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 1 each SATA (750 GB) &
PATA (160 GB) hard drives, gigabit ethernet & USB 2.0, ATI Radeon 9800
Pro, Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11 & Leopard 10.5.8
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