Putting my Leopard on a Diet...

Darryn · 12 Nov 2007 at 21:52

Ive been looking for something to remove all the un-needed Language files and Printer drivers from my Leopard installations...

From the Sticky, Delocalizer - this looks good, but only supports up to 10.3 so i darent use it on 10.5

Can anyone recommend any guides or Apps to strip away the unneeded files from both the OS and Installed apps if possible.

Scythe · 12 Nov 2007 at 21:55

Delocalizer works fine, used it today

Mr Jones · 12 Nov 2007 at 21:55

When I installed Leopard, I used Custom and edit out all the language and printer drivers I didn't need, so it was "skinny" when I fresh installed it - not sure if it's possible to do it after installing now...

J1234 · 12 Nov 2007 at 21:59

Dr Jones said:
When I installed Leopard, I used Custom and edit out all the language and printer drivers I didn't need, so it was "skinny" when I fresh installed it - not sure if it's possible to do it after installing now...

Exactly how I did it, do a fresh install and decide what you want to install.

theheyes · 12 Nov 2007 at 22:11

How much hard disk space does it free up? Is it worth it?

I usually leave them on but if I upgrade to Leopard I might try omitting them this time.

Darryn · 12 Nov 2007 at 22:12

Bugger, did a fresh install but didnt read much of the install options and stuff, just clicked OK to most screens.

Will_3rd · 12 Nov 2007 at 22:13

Forgot to customize my install, ended up removing printer drivers, languages, processor architectures & iPhoto themes saved about 5-6GBs.

Darryn · 12 Nov 2007 at 22:45

Delocalizer removed 3.1gb of Localization resources....
Printers = 1.68gb

Not bad for 10mins work.

WotDa · 12 Nov 2007 at 22:52

Wow, I'll give that a bash tomorrow then. Let's hope I don't remove English like last time. :rolleyes:

Mr Jones · 12 Nov 2007 at 23:27

WotDa said:
Wow, I'll give that a bash tomorrow then. Let's hope I don't remove English like last time.

Always helps to learn another language... e.g. Chinese

Doug · 13 Nov 2007 at 00:25

WotDa said:
Wow, I'll give that a bash tomorrow then. Let's hope I don't remove English like last time.

I almost want to, just to see what happens

waso_dude · 13 Nov 2007 at 10:37

Anyone know where the printers are?

And anyone tell me how to remove them? Or is it just drag the whole folder into trash..

WotDa · 13 Nov 2007 at 11:02

Dr Jones said:
Always helps to learn another language... e.g. Chinese

Sure, if you teach me.

Doug said:
I almost want to, just to see what happens

It was interesting, the OS still worked fine but apps were slightly less fine.

waso_dude · 13 Nov 2007 at 11:06

WOW! just unistalled all the language apart from EN-GB and gained 3.8gb

Darryn · 13 Nov 2007 at 11:26

I used the info here to remove the unwanted printers http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=385274

waso_dude · 13 Nov 2007 at 12:07

another 3gb

Thats 6gh ish that i've got back today

Mr Jones · 13 Nov 2007 at 19:07

WotDa said:
Sure, if you teach me.

I can teach but I'd rather direct you to there

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vCdrhLIFk4

Anyway, I digress

WotDa · 13 Nov 2007 at 19:16

Dr Jones said:
I can teach but I'd rather direct you to there
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vCdrhLIFk4

Anyway, I digress

Ni hao!

That looks better than Mango that I was using to learn Japanese too, thanks for ze link.

Hamish · 13 Nov 2007 at 20:58

Don't think anyone mentioned it but I used Monolingual ( http://monolingual.sourceforge.net/ ) to delete languages, then I deleted the printers folder manually.

Irish_Tom · 14 Nov 2007 at 11:37

Dr Jones said:
Always helps to learn another language... e.g. Chinese

This happened to me when I got my new iPod nano, all the menu's were in Japanese. I had to get my mate to go through his menu's till we found the right one.

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