At 10:55 PM -0500 3/26/2011, Sean Carroll wrote:
After Monolingual had done its thing
Ahm not much of a fan of Monolingual. From the tech support POV it's a PITA.
If your HD is so full that a 1.x GB savings is so important, then you
really should just buy a new drive.
Taking a hack saw to your engine is never a good plan.
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.
Or you could have just gone into /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ and
moved the damaged Flip4Mac plugin files outta there.
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.
As you update products, the storage savings from mono will be
obliterated - unless you rerun it again.
Updaters that use patching apps will now all fail. You'll have to do
the big downloads and clean installations to update those products.
At some point in the future, when you migrate to an x86 Mac, you'll
need to remember to NOT migrate any of the munged products and such.
All that will have to be reinstalled anew.
And now that you've munged your system, remember to *archive* your
backup/clone. Don't update it! That will just propagate what you've
damaged into the backup! Start a new backup instead. That way,
*when* something goes wrong, you'll have the original known-complete
backup from which to restore things
- Dan.
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