Remove unwanted OS X language resources.
Monolingual is a program for removing unnecesary language resources from OS X, in order to reclaim several hundred megabytes of disk space. If you use your computer in only one (human) language, you may not need to be taking up space on your hard drive with extraneous localization files. Monolingual will locate and eliminate these space-wasting files.
Monolingual was written by J. Schrier and I. Stein, and is released under the GNU General Public License. Source code is available.
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After running a few minutes, the finder froze and I had to restert finder. The dock still was not working right so I rebooted and used AppDelete to remove all of it.
I see in the FAQ that some things should not be touched, but there seems to be no way to disable touching Adobe apps, for example. (At least I do not see it in the preferences.) It would be nice to be able to select one app to see what it does without going thru the entire disk, but that seems not to be an option.
I also notice that even on applications where nothing is removed, it changes the date stamps of the files thus making them have to be re-backed up.
Overall it just seems too dangerous to me for the minimal amount of savings. That said, I am not sure how much it got done because I had to kill it due to the finder issues, but it probably did what it claims to do, otherwise it would be one star. Sorry. (10.13.6 is my OS, 1.8.2 is my version)
Given this app is free, version 1.7.3 running in OS X 10.11 in my case, I add one star. Good work, though I wish Monolingual was more informative and allowed for user overrides.
Part 2 - I closed the warning and double clicked on the dmg. This time it opened.
Part 3 - The app still doesn't install the "HELPER UTILITY."
Part 4 - I totally removed the old app: 12 files, 28.7 MB.
Part 5 - Repeat of Part 3.
Please!
http://ingmarstein.github.io/Monolingual/