Monolingual dumbed down my Mac
In a desperate quest for some free space on my hard-drive I ran Monolingual on my work laptop, choosing to remove what I considered to be unnecessary Languages, Input Menus and Architectures, and was surprised to see a 4GB gain. I also ran it on my home laptop but, oddly, it only freed 1.5GB of disk space.
I haven’t noticed any issues on my home machine but iTunes and anything that required iSight (Photo Booth, Skype, etc) stopped working on my work MacBook Pro. Opening any of these apps just caused them to automatically close immediately after. There wasn’t any thing in Console’s error logs which made it that much harder to figure out what the issue was.
After much mucking about (including re-installing the Mac OS X 10.5.8 Combo Update) I’ve managed to fix the problem by re-installing Flip4Mac and Perian. I also re-installed iTunes but I don’t think that was necessary.
I think I prefer a polyglot Mac.
