How to restore a PPC architecture?

Wing Lam · Wing Lam #1 (**permalink**)

05-06-2010, 12:27 PM

Hi all,

I removed the PPC architecture through monolingual;
is there any way restore it?
my Intel Mac based snowleopard becomes unstable.
Thank you!

Wing

chscag · chscag #2 (**permalink**)

05-06-2010, 04:42 PM

The only way to restore it is to re-install OS X. Although I highly recommend you delete Monolingual from your machine, I doubt the reason for the instability was due to removing the PPC architecture. Monolingual has been know to cause problems with certain application software - most notoriously, MS Office.

Regards.

bobtomay · bobtomay #3 (**permalink**)

05-06-2010, 04:50 PM

Also advise removing monolingual.

The programs that monolingual negatively affected on my machine, I was able to uninstall and reinstall only those apps to get them working again.

Don't use MS Office at home, so I don't know if it will have affected the ability to properly uninstall and reinstall it or not.

With the price of hard drives today, if you're concerned about the 2-4 GB of space that can be saved by running such programs, it would be advised to get a larger hard drive instead.

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Wing Lam #1 (permalink)
Member Since: May 06, 2010 Posts: 1	05-06-2010, 12:27 PM Hi all, I removed the PPC architecture through monolingual; is there any way restore it? my Intel Mac based snowleopard becomes unstable. Thank you! Wing
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chscag #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Jan 23, 2008 Location: Fort Worth, Texas Posts: 32,015 Mac Specs: 21.5" iMac 2.5 GHz i5, iPad 3rd Gen., 3 iPods	05-06-2010, 04:42 PM The only way to restore it is to re-install OS X. Although I highly recommend you delete Monolingual from your machine, I doubt the reason for the instability was due to removing the PPC architecture. Monolingual has been know to cause problems with certain application software - most notoriously, MS Office. Regards.
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