I use Monolingual often, one trick I've learned is to make sure I have other web browsers (Firefox, Chrome) installed so that I can download and reinstall Safari if it has issues after the languages are removed- that issue was discussed quite a bit when Tiger was the current OS.
On Mar 26, 11:55 pm, Sean Carroll <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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 [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
