Just be careful not to remove the languages for Adobe products such as Photoshop, InDesign, etc. I used monolingual before and had to remove and reinstall these Adobe programs because they didn't like what went on.

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I used Monolingual just last week on my iMac and my Macbook, it worked great. I reclaimed 3GB on my Macbook!

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Careful. Using apps like Monolingual will prevent certain Adobe CS2 apps (like Illustrator and Acrobat) from being updated.

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Just double checked that I wouldn't delete the languages I use and have the following question:

Where on this planet do they speak Klingon???

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I just started setting up monolingual, choosing the languages I want removed, and I came across this VERY UNEXPECTED LANGUAGE:

http://static.flickr.com/78/157953848_0a573a7aba_o.jpg

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To clarify, that language is KLINGON!!!

Does anyone actually run OSX in Klingon mode?

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Youpi Optimizer does the same. Worked great on my Rev. A iMac, where 10.3 was a tight squeeze on the 4GB disk.

http://phupe.club.fr/english/YOIndex.html

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Don't use the remove architecture part if you want to KEEP using svn or need the G4 parts of your libraries (developers)...

I am very mad at myself for using it...

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I've been using Monolingual for years, and it's a great little app. It was a big help with my old Pismo PowerBook, which only had a 6 gig drive. Space isn't so precious these days, but it's sometimes nice to clean out the junk and get a few hundred megs back.

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Yeah, I just discovered that Adobe CS hates me for removing something, likely the G4/G5 architecture, because I'm running it under Rosetta.

I'm regretting this already.

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Yeah... I've been looking into using monolingual for awhile but there are some scary warnings out there. Like don't remove mandarin because it will mess up adobe products or something?
Is there a list of languages that are SAFE to remove with monolingual?

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I think Greg just found this out, but:

DON'T REMOVE ARCHITECTURE ON INTEL MACS.

I did it on my iMac, and Rosetta stopped working(and a couple other things like Disk Utility and Activity Monitor). I thought that my PPC applications would be lacking their PPC binaries and I'd have to reinstall them, but all I had to do was archive and install OSX and it fixed Rosetta.

Bottom line: Monolingual removes languages well, not execution code (at least for Intel Macs, I have no idea what architecture removal will do to PPC Macs .. and I don't want to try.)

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Yes, this application is evil. It removed Rosetta for me as well, no warning, no undo. I now have to re-install my system, my apps, ... and waste 3 hours doing that today.

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does anyone know if delocalizer (http://www.bombich.com/software/local.html) (which does the same thing) causes these problems? i have used it on my G5 and several G4s. I have had no problems (so far?) with Adobe CS apps, or anything, for that matter.

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Shrimp, can I fix Rosetta without formatting my machine?

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Scott, you might want to provide relevant links to the Apple discussion forums with your posts on possibly hazardous, unsupported software. Monolingual is a huge mess for those with intel macs.

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I wouldn't recommend using this product unless you really really need 2gb of space.

I had problems with it wiping out my Keyboard Layouts, even when I removed somethng I didn't think I would need.

Also, it would probably be best not to use it remove architectures. Rosetta may get wonky if you're running a Macbook Pro.

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I was able to fix the issue with Keyboard Layouts by copying the contents of /System/Library/Keyboard Layouts from another Mac.

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#15 or you might want to include those relevant links since you know about them

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Stephen, I meant to post those links, but had to get back to archiving and installing OSX.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=457198&tstart=30

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