Ahm not much of a fan of Monolingual. From the tech support POV
it's a PITA.
I can see that (now), but, aside from the disasters I read about,
mostly due to non-adherence to RTFM, everything I saw was
"Monolingual is great."
If your HD is so full that a 1.x GB savings is so important, then
you really should just buy a new drive.
Nah, HD's not even close to full. Just a clearing out of the
seemingly expendable. The allure of the "lean and mean" system. For
years and years I never went in for any Spring Cleaning-type stuff.
Thought I'd try it. I prepared myself with a complete backup.
Taking a hack saw to your engine is never a good plan.
No. Didn't know it was a hacksaw, though. Guess I'll skip it on Leopard.
Or you could have just gone into /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ and
moved the damaged Flip4Mac plugin files outta there.
Heh. Well, *you* could have. Me, I didn't know exactly which of the
file(s) were damaged or where to find them, or indeed that moving
them out would amount to fixing.
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.
Well, the good news is that there won't be much if any updating. It's
Tiger, end of the line, and with no third-party apps that I have any
need to update. Also, nobody here (on Tiger) will be migrating to an
x86 Mac. That will be a completely fresh start, a whole other world.
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.
The unmunged system is alive and well as a bootable clone as we
speak. If things go crazy-bad with the "munged" system, I've lost
nothing but a couple hours.
I appreciate the opinion and the advice. Good caution for others
considering Monolingual, too. Thanks.
Sean Carroll
slcarr...@me.com
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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