Article:		Seven Mac OS X Tips
Subject:		Removing Localized Files?
Date:		2002-01-03 14:11:07
From:		morbus
I had read on some site somewhere concerning a shell command that you could use to delete all the international project files (.proj) EXCEPT for the English one - and that you'd save a good 200+ megs of space. Anyone have that command around? I can't for the life of me remember it.

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• Removing Localized Files?
  2002-01-04 08:21:00  art50 [View]
  
  
  I copied this from...
  http://appledumplings.com/
  
  11/16/2001 Want to get rid of those languages files
  to free up space? What I did to be able to install.
  
  When I was installing the 10.1.1 update I had a space issue. I assume others may have the same. How to get rid of those Language files that were installed by apps or the original OS X install? Well because we have the BSD layer it is quite easy. BSD has many great utilities... "find" is one of them. Here is how I got rid of those language files.
  find / \! -name "English.lproj" -name "*.lproj" -type d -exec rm -r -- {} \;
  What this does is find items from the "/" directory look for all ending with ".lproj" but not "English.lproj" of type directory then execute the remove -r "recursively" on all found. you could add in other languages by inserting such as ' \! -name "Spanish.lproj" ' without the 's. Be careful . After using this myself I freed up 320 MB of space.
  Mileage may vary!!
  
• Thanks!
  2002-01-04 09:22:07  Kevin Hemenway | [View]
  
  
  Exactly what I was looking for.