If I removed the other 2 out of 3 remaining localizations, I would be at 2 MB.Īnd a similar space saving can be done additionally to all those universal applications that install PPC code on your Intel Mac, or Intel code on your PPC. After manually removing all the localizations no one will ever use on the Mac, the size of the application went down from 22.1 MB to 4.2 MB.
So, my system that was installed in 3 languages in total, not all 20+ included in system, has all the added localizations I will never need, every time softwareupdate is run.īecause of this, TextEdit in 10.5.3 was 22.1 MB. This has been occurring since Mac OS X first versions came out, and has never been fixed, and most likely will never be fixed (even to have only two software update options: English only vs International including all localizations). On every subsequent Apple software update, the initial selection of installed languages is not respected, and all language packs are installed for all installed applications. In my 10.5.3, the original installation (10.5) was made using ONLY English and 2 selected languages out of way too many.
I just tested slimming down manually TextEdit.
