Monolingual

I have used Monolingual for almost since the inception of OS X. It is one of the most reliable pieces of sw out there. Yes other programers has included the features into their programs but that is just more of a tribute to the original. I have even tried older versions of it and they still run because he stuck to the Apple guidelines. But one word of warning, do not strip the languages from Office 2008. If you do, you will not be able to update it anymore. Why, ask MS those schmuck do things I will never know why. Also be carful when you try to slim down your apps by removing the fat binaries. Some of them WILL not work after you do it & will no longer boot. I had to reload many apps after trying this feature so user beware. I reviewed Monolingual back in 2003 or so and gave it an outstanding review. Over the years it has evolved very nicely and I hope it stays functional for PPC users as well as Intel users. What seems like a minor utility can save gigs just in languages alone if you never ran such a program. I took office 2008 out of my app folder so it would not touch it. One addition would be nice to add in the pref. An exclusion tab where you can tell it what not to touch as it works. To me that is the only thing missing and with the problem of reducing fat binaries well that is the problem with the sw and really not Mono. That is just how the software is designed. If does not see the full pkg it will not load which is a pity and waist of space. One last thing, stability, in all my years of using it it has never crashed in the middle of an operation. It is free so how can you go wrong. End of Line... Note: Robert Lewis is a Freelance writer looking for work.

I tried this today. I ran it in the mode to remove unused architectures. I removed all except the Intel arch's keeping both 64bit and 32bit.

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)

I tried to install 1.8.2 and got a window saying "Failed To Install Helper Utility." I have an iMac running macOS Mojave 10.14.3. Doesn't rate a star at all.

I did a spotlight search for any previous "Monolingual" files and found nothing. I tried to install 1.8.1 and got a window saying "Failed To Install Helper Utility." I have an iMac running Mojave 10.14.2. Doesn't rate a star at all.

Absolutely worthless. I am using Mojave and Monolingual still does not work. It still cannot install the helper app required when using previous versions, including this one.

Just a question: is version 1.8.0 fully compatible with Mojave 10.14.1? Thank you for your answers.

"1 byte" might be old, but just go into preferences and tell it to put the removed files in the trash. You'll find a bunch when it's done.