Monolingual, But Not Rosetta
Posted by Dave Minor Mon, 07 Aug 2006 21:38:00 GMT
Over the weekend, I ran Monolingual 1.3.3 to remove some unused pieces of my MacBook Pro system to free up a little disk space.
Things started going badly. Like installing system upgrades (Security Update 2006-004) would fail and some applications like Quicken would not launch.
About the time I started doing an archive and reinstall, I remembered running Monolingual. I pulled up their site and sure enough in their FAQ, it mentions not deleting the PowerPC architecture stuff on an intel box. Great!
The good news is that I’m thinking that after the archive and install, I’ll be in pretty good shape with just a few applications needing to be copied from the backup (my SuperDuper! backup was of course hosed too).
My hope in blogging this is that someone will either NOT remove the PowerPC architecture stuff on their intel mac or help them in fixing the problem afterwards. This is a lot less dismal than reinstalling each application by hand due to a “master level directory structure corruption” which is what Apple diagnosed it as.
It all could be fixed if they would just let us choose which languages we wanted to install from the beginning.
You can choose which languages you want durning the installation. There is a customize button.
my point was that apple should only install 1 as default. The few who need to have multiple languages installed may use Custom.