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Delete caches and save disk space
Authored by: Hodag on May 01, '06 10:03:18AM
AppleJack, among other things, will clean both system and user caches, as well as feed the pets and repair your permissions. Welll, maybe not the pets thing, but it is a lovely program.

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Delete caches and save disk space
Authored by: Robbug on May 01, '06 12:25:52PM

I'm not sure if this hint has been posted before but if you get info on each application file there are installed language options. I went through all of my apps and deleted all of them except english. Most times this will halve the size of the app. Apple is notorious for installing 12 different languages for each app. I believe there is an apple script that does this automatically too.



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Delete caches and save disk space
Authored by: TigerKR on May 01, '06 09:03:38PM

Just be careful about deleting some application localizations. Some applications may have dependencies to those localizations. Some time ago, I remember a problem when someone tried to delete localizations, and they ended up having to reinstall that application.



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Delete caches and save disk space
Authored by: sjk on May 02, '06 11:39:37AM

Yep, certain apps can mysteriously misbehave after you've deleted their language localization files. And Apple software updates can reinstall ones you've deleted so it's not necessarily a one-time removal routine.

I don't see any reason to risk removing those files unless reclaiming disk space is a necessity and there are no safer alternatives.



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Delete caches and save disk space
Authored by: ahagstro on Jul 25, '06 01:33:29PM

I can recommend Monolingual (monolingual.sourceforge.net), a neat little software that does just that - removes language resources you don't want/need. I've been using it for a couple of years now without problems (making sure never to remove any of the English varieties (my system language).

Anders



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