Download Acrobat Pro Trial. By clicking the “Download Acrobat Pro Trial” button, you acknowledge that you have read and accepted all of the Terms. At the top left of your screen, open the Apple menu ( ) 2. Select “About This Mac”. In the “Overview” tab, look for “Processor” or “Chip”. Check if it says “Intel”. Choose your download option based on the prossesor you have.

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It's easy to fall into the trap of false promises that many companies make of gaining large amounts of space by removing localization files on a Mac. Fortunately, the free Monolingual‘s message is clear: it’s possible to reclaim several hundred megabytes of disk space and nothing more. True to its name, the third party software, aims to serve one clear purpose, which is simply to make the Mac monolingual. Assuming that you are using your Mac in only one language, English, then Monolingual offers the removal of all other languages as well as non-Intel architectures to free up space.

Developed by Ingmar Stein, Monolingual is a simple utility. At launch it will present a dialog box with two tabs and various selections. One tab contains the languages and the second highlights the system architectures it is able to remove. After making the right selections, users just need to hit “Remove” and confirm their action in the prompt. Monolingual does a good job of removing the selected languages.

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However, the main question is whether you need an app for localization file removal, as the amount of space language files occupy is rather small. For example, in our testing the system-wide usage of French – included in various apps stored on our computer, such as iTunes, 1Password and much more – claimed only 16.2MB of space. Now, even if you add all the other localization files included in the apps, the reclaimed disk space won't necessarily pass the 300MB mark.

The majority of high-quality Mac optimization apps already include a feature for removing localization files, so it wouldn't make too much sense to keep an app for that purpose only, unless you want to remove the non-Intel architectures too. Mac optimization apps, on the other hand, help to reclaim gigabytes of space by removing system junk, iTunes junk, duplicate files, and the like. That's much more effective than removing localization files, which will occupy a few hundred megabytes of storage space at most.

Is Monolingual Safe?

When Monolingual launches, it will ask you to select the languages you wish to remove. It is highly recommended that you go through the list, because the majority of languages are selected by default. Since this also includes the English language pack, you risk removing the English language as well, which would render macOS unusable. If you have removed the language pack, the only way to get it back is by performing a system reinstall.

Monolingual's secondary feature, architecture removal, is something to consider. The app is ‘smart’ enough to not remove PPC forks if those are the only ones in the universal binary. However, you should not strip out the System frameworks if you want to use Rosetta, as it needs the PowerPC code for all frameworks used by the emulated application, the developer notes.

Space Gained by Removing One Language

In the end, Monolingual is a safe app if used with due care and knowledge (especially with the architecture feature). We can recommend Monolingual to those who don't have a Mac optimization app and need every byte of disk storage. However, it is highly recommended that you only download the app from the dedicated website, for two reasons: first, this means you will receive the latest version, and secondly this way you know the app you are downloading is safe.

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Update : 2013

Don’t use Monolingual if you have Mountain Lion or later.

Apple made significant changes to reduce the footprint so languages etc are no longer installed. The old CPU types no longer used.

I use Monolingual to save space on the MAC OSX. Quick word on how much space you can save and how to do it.

At time of writing, Monolingual has been updated to Version 1.4.1 and I took the step to run it on my Snow Leopard. Steep game. Even after my cat cancelled the Removal, I think it saved more than a gigabyte of space. As you can see below, the screen shows 320M and the program had been running for longer.

and removing unwanted architectures got me another 299M.

Edit: I got a new MacBook recently and ran MonoLingual after a a full install and I saved 2.3Gigabytes of space.

So I will be continuing to use Monolingual to keep my Mac as lean as possible. All the configuration and setup remains identical and the original article continues below.

The first time I used Monolingual on Leopard I got more than 3GB back. I ran Monolingual yesterday and got 500 MB back after it deleted all the language files from various programs that had been updated or installed in recent weeks.

Today, I installed the 10.5.3 update (420 MB), then rang Monolingual to remove all the Language packs and got 240MB. Removing the PowerPC Architectures got me another 20MB for a total saving of 260MB.

If you haven’t used Monolingual, it is freely available http://monolingual.sourceforge.net/. Think carefully before removing architectures – if you have ANY legacy software, it can break your computer. Removing languages is very simple, low risk and you get a lot of space back.

Slimming down the languages

OS X, and every program contains language files for every language that is supported – typically more than one hundred languages. This is a lot of redundant information.

Here is how languages screen looks, I keep the US English as some people have indicated that certain developers don’t honour the API’s and can break their applications if US English is not there. Everything else can be safely deleted. You MUST keep English (or you will be restoring from a backup).

Input Menu

The Input Menu doesn’t save much space (less a megabyte):

Architectures

The Architectures doesn’t save a lot of space so many people don’t touch this – if you are risk averse then just skip this section. I am short on disk space, so getting 500MB back is worth it. As I understand it, this goes through all the programs on your drive and removes any of the code that makes it compatible with PowerPC systems (or something like that).

WARNING:

1) Have a backup before you do this.

2) Know how to restore OS X BEFORE you start.

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3) Make sure you are running an Intel based Mac (because that is what these instructions are about).

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4) Did you double check you are running an Intel Based MAC check here to see what you should see.

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This is how my preferences screen looks. The latest versions of Monolingual are correctly configured to stop problems that happened in earlier versions.

Final Thoughts

Helperamc Removal

Every time a program downloads an update, the language files are reinstalled. OS X updates also add the language files back (in some parts at least). So you should run Monolingual on regular basis, say every month or so.