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Rehasing an old trick to improve App Launching
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Just to rehash an old trick for those new folks here and the old members who don't remeber this one.
One thing to make apps load a little faster is to gid rid of the extra languages supported by the Apps.
If you get info and then click on languages you will see a bunch there. I have noticed that you DO get back some Drive space as well as making the App load a little quicker. Especailly some of the iApps and other 3rd party apps.
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What apps in particular have you noticed a big difference?
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Originally posted by gorickey:
What apps in particular have you noticed a big difference?
Thx.
Some Apps that I have found it helps is Photoshop and the iApps. Though iPhoto is still slow at loading images when you have a lot. It does seem to load a little quicker though. Maybe it's just me. I do remember people talking about this trick in the early days of OS X.
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Thanks for the tip, I'm going to try it out. In the "Get Info" window, do you need to actually remove the language or just uncheck it?
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Plato--what's a "Chickie Run"?
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use DeLocalizer for all you language removal needs.
Removes System and Application language packs.
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Originally posted by typoon:
Some Apps that I have found it helps is Photoshop and the iApps.
Photoshop's additional localizations are all empty folders, so I think you're just imagining any gains.
Removing localizations certainly does free up a lot of disk space, though. You can shrink iMovie from 80+ MB to just over 20MB.
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I really think the only gain is in disk space. The OS always check to see if there is a folder for the main language, and if it finds it ignores the rest, so if you have set your language as English you are pretty sure getting it always quick.
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I definitely hark to the older days. I now have a dual G5 with 250 GB of space and what do I do? Promptly download Delocalizer and run it! 
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I'll try this... could be nice to free some HD space !
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I had forgotten about DeLocalizer after installing Panther.
I didn't think I installed other languages but I ended up saving 257 Mb of space by running it. Not a big deal but hey, it was an easy 5 minute break from my normal routine.
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