On the advice of a friend, I ran Monolingual to remove unused language files from my MacBook Pro (early 2010), now none of my Office apps will open.
Hmmm…. if I may say so. If your friend or you had bothered to read the Monolingual manual or Read Me and noticed the "WARNING" which for years has said to exempt MS Office versions from '08 and later and most big Abobe application products, which would normally stop them from doing any update or maybe not run.
BTW: If you're running any recent OS X version and/or even with the latest version of Monolingual, it will only scrape a small surface and maybe a bit larger area if the SID security stuff has been disabled when it was run.
And FWIW, I've been an avid user of
Monolingual over the years and I'm almost a crazy hunter when it comes to removing all the space wasting foreign languages I don't use or need, but Monolingual does NOT do the proper cleaning it used to do with recent OS X versions.
If you want to do so properly, download and use
Find Any File.app, oh gosh… I just heard a bunch of sighs and groans from some members… :Blushing:
Now, use Spotlight and enter ".lproj" or "lproj" (no brackets), and make note of what and how many it finds, It won't be many.
Now use Find Any File.app and just enter .lproj in the find area and use the "Ends with" option and and use the Add to add "Is a folder, (see attachment below) hit Find button and see what it finds.
Mind-blowing eh what?? Yup GBs. And you thought Monolingual had cleaned up them all!!!
Yes you can use Find Any File.app to delete and destroy what you don't need, but CAREFUL CARE and ATTENTION is needed, otherwise don't even think of deleting any.
And NEVER DELETE ANY FOLDERS ENDING IN .lproj that begin with or contain: Base, en, english or any language(s) that you might use.
PS: If MS Office and Abobe suites are installed and one is going to do such language purging, for safety you can select the ones to be "protected" and use the Finder to compress them which will not allow anything to be removed.
PPS: And yes, Find Any File.app can find that too.
Now, if I can just figure out how to find my old outlook.pst file in the backup I'd be all done ...
PPPS: When using Find Any File.app to delete stuff, hold the option key when hitting the Find button to give you Root permissions.
Then use the right-click and Delete immediately option on selected items.
- Patrick
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