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great hint
Authored by: kyrrigle on Feb 06, '03 02:57:03PM

great hint on reducing disk space bloat by deleting languages... my iPhoto2 went from 97MB to 20MB... sure would be nice if you could set up a system preference with the languages you care about...



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great hint
Authored by: kyrrigle on Feb 06, '03 03:25:12PM

even better... DeLocalizer... freed another 228MB for me...

http://software.bombich.com/local.html



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great hint - possible but problematic
Authored by: cynikal on Feb 06, '03 04:06:26PM

The problem with delocalizer is that you are modifying your bundle, and when you download upgrade packages, they sometimes expect the virgin bundle, not some trimmed bundle.

Worst case scenario is your upgrade will fail and you'll have to reinstall the full (bloated) software w/ all the languages (well a default install in any case) then run the upgrade program (and delocalize it again if you wish, but you may still have the upgrade problem further down the line).

I know for a fact this is what happens with Micromat's Drive. I had to reinstall it just to upgrade it because it did not think it was installed (and hence coudln't upgrade anything).



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