Hi Walter, Did you read the document “MONOLINGUAL 1.8.0 Read me” that came with Monolingual installation? Monolingual should NOT be used unless you first read everything about it, as used incorrectly it can do serious damage to the operating system.
Did you set any of the Preferences in Monolingual > Preferences? Move Language Files to Trash? Automatically check for Updates? Monolingual Architectures? On my MBA with keeping only English languages -English, English (Australia), English (UK), English (US). My Trash had many 100’s of language files in it. After I emptied the Trash -I gained approx. 1.3GB of free Hard Drive space. ==================== Pro Tip: Make sure that all English languages are deselected (including UK, Australia, Canada, etc.). No matter which language you use natively on your Mac, keep the English-based languages or you may risk having an incomplete OS X installation. Pro Tip: If you use Adobe programs, manually de-select their directories from the removal process. ========== A bit of information in case you don’t understand System Integrity Protection (SIP) System Integrity Protection (SIP) is a security technology in OS X El Capitan and later that's designed to help prevent potentially malicious software from modifying protected files and folders on your Mac. System Integrity Protection restricts the root user account <https://support.apple.com/kb/HT204012> and limits the actions that the root user can perform on protected parts of the Mac operating system. You can read all parts of the system SIP protects at this Apple support link: <https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT204899 <https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT204899>> One part System Integrity Protection includes protection for is /System I am thinking this ‘might’ be why Monolingual is having ‘issues’ with the ‘Helper Tool’. I’ve looked at the Monolingual Logs on my MBA after I’ve completed ‘removing unneeded language localization files’ and it does show hundreds of language “lproj” Trashed files. Your Monolingual Log file can be located at ~/Library/Logs/Monolingual.log Cheers, Ronni 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014) 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 > On 30 Mar 2018, at 1:07 pm, FW <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Ronni, > > I followed your advice and now have available 243GB. I even deleted EyeTV > recordings that had already been > exported into iTunes. > With the Monolingual I am not sure if it has really done the job ? > I was under the impression that the ticked files would be removed. Only > English and some euro languages I > left unticked. After clicking the Remove button it took some time and then > the following message was > displayed: “Space saved: 1 byte” > I closed Monolingual and opened it again and all the files were still listed > with the ticks in place. > When I open System Preferences >Language & Region I can see the languages > after clicking on the + to add > more to the “Preferred languages” Is this a valid way of checking for > available languages ? > > Confused again > > Cheers > Walter > >> On 27 Mar 2018, at 20:40 , FW <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Just cleared download folder and then trash, now 177GB available, will >> attend to your other suggestions >> on w/end. >> >> Thanks and happy easter. >> >> Walter >> ****************************************** >> >>> On 27 Mar 2018, at 18:09 , Ronda Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Walter, >>> >>> I prefer to have my Photos & iPhoto libraries & iTunes library on my Macs >>> and not running them from an External Drive. >>> But some people do so successfully. >>> >>> The absolute VERY minimum free space some say is 15%... I would NEVER >>> recommend any of my clients, friends or WAMUG people run their Macs at 15% >>> available space. >>> I prefer to have at the very least 25% available space on my Macs. >>> Macs running latest Operating systems need a lot of free space to run well >>> and fast. >>> ‘Lean & Mean’ is the way to have a Mac operating at its maximum ;-) >>> >>> So Walter your Mac’s HD is very close to the 15% (150GB). >>> The unneeded language localization files will give you probably 1-2GB extra. >>> I would then run WhatSize app to give you details of where the used is >>> being used. >>> It’s a good starting point. >>> >>> Uninstall old applications you haven’t used & never will again, archive >>> mail attachments & years old mail. Make sure the Trash is empty, the >>> Download Folder is empty. >>> Only the HD and ‘One’ folder on the Desktop. ‘That One Folder’ on the >>> Desktop can have other folders inside it if required. >>> There are lots of items that need regularly cleaned up & ‘culled’. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Ronni >>> Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB >>> >>> >>> On 27 Mar 2018, at 5:19 pm, FW <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Ronni, >>>> I have a question on the same subject. >>>> My HD on the 2009 iMac is 1TB and available now is 157GB. >>>> Enough ? Or should I look at moving iTunes files or iPhoto files to an >>>> ext/HD ? >>>> >>>> I am also now looking at the language file situation. >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> Walter >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Hi Rosemary, >>>>> 15.2GB is nowhere near enough available space. Are you running High >>>>> Sierra? >>>>> You need to free up space ASAP, or you will be having problems. >>>>> >>>>> Do you have WhatSize.app version 6.6.3 (which is compatible with High >>>>> Sierra)? >>>>> If not you can download it from this link: https://whatsizemac.com/ >>>>> WhatSize will show you what is taking up the space on your MBP Hard Drive. >>>>> >>>>> Also did you remove unneeded language localization files on your MBP. >>>>> I always remove the unneeded language localization files from my Macs. >>>>> I only keep All the English - English (Australia), English (United >>>>> Kingdom), English (United States). >>>>> If you only ever use English, there is no need to have all the other >>>>> language files taking up valuable GBs of space. >>>>> I use Monolingual 1.8.0 to remove the thousand of unneeded language >>>>> localization files. >>>>> You can check it out at this link: >>>>> https://ingmarstein.github.io/Monolingual/ >>>>> >>>>> Run WhatSize 6.6.3 to show you details of the space use. >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> Ronni >>>>> >>>>> Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 27 Mar 2018, at 3:58 pm, Rosemary Spark <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi Ronni, >>>>>> 500 Flash storage 15.2 GB available >>>>>> >>>>>> Cheers >>>>>> Rosemary >>>>>> >>>>>> Rosemary Spark >>>>>> PO Box 781 >>>>>> South Fremantle WA 6162 Australia >>>>>> Phone: + 61 8 6397 6822 >>>>>> Mobile: 0414268043 >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On 27 March 2018 at 12:43, Ronda Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> Hi Rosemary, >>>>>> >>>>>> What storage do you have on your MacBook Pro 14,2 and how much Available >>>>>> Space? >>>>>> Storage 256, 512 GB, or 1 TB flash storage? >>>>>> Regards, >>>>>> Ronni >>>>>> Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On 27 Mar 2018, at 9:29 am, Rosemary Spark <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi there, >>>>>>> I have a Macbook pro which is running out of space. Now Photos is 232 >>>>>>> GB. How do I safely move/copy to a hard drive (without losing stuff) >>>>>>> and what do I do then re backup etc. It's far too big to add to icloud! >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Also any other suggestions for slimming down (apart from obvious, >>>>>>> ...nothing much on desktop, emptying caches, trash; getting rid of >>>>>>> programmes I don't use) >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Model Name: MacBook Pro >>>>>>> Model Identifier: MacBookPro14,2 >>>>>>> Processor Name: Intel Core i5 >>>>>>> Processor Speed: 3.1 GHz >>>>>>> Number of Processors: 1 >>>>>>> Total Number of Cores: 2 >>>>>>> L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB >>>>>>> L3 Cache: 4 MB >>>>>>> Memory: 8 GB >>>>>>> Boot ROM Version: MBP142.0169.B00 >>>>>>> SMC Version (system): 2.44f1 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Rosemary Spark >>>>>>> PO Box 781 >>>>>>> South Fremantle WA 6162 Australia >>>>>>> Phone: + 61 8 6397 6822 >>>>>>> Mobile: 0414268043>
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