Macintosh OSX users should consider checking out a software product called Monolingual. Each OSX installation as well as much of the software we install comes loaded with all kinds of extra language files. However, most of us don’t speak or write those languages. As a result, we have all kinds of language-related files sitting on our hard drives taking up space.
Monolingual allows you to select which languages you want to keep and deletes all of the others. The product just spent about 10 minutes pouring through the hard drive on my MacBook Pro looking for all the language files I decided I didn’t need. The net result was a savings of 3.1Gb!
So, if you are interested, check it out here. The only caution is that once these files are gone, you can only get them back by reinstalling OSX. So, be sure you don’t speak or write Tigrinya, Uzbek, Quechua, Maori, Malagasy, Kernowek or Gujarati before you start the removal process!
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