Tip #5 : Removing language files from OS X

Did you ever need more disk space on your mac?

Want to get rid of all those silly languages that OS X installs that you don't speak?

 

Warning! This could destroy your computer, at the very worst, you could delete every file on your computer!

This should save anywhere from 200 - 300 mb, so if you have 20 Gigs free, then save yourself the headaches, and don't try it.

To get rid of all the language files off your hard drive once and for all (except english):

1. go to console
2. change to the root directory type "cd /" and return
3. run this command:
sudo find / \! -name "English.lproj" -name "*.lproj" -type d -exec rm -r -- {} \;

If your would like to see what it would delete before it actually deletes them then run this instead:

sudo find / \! -name "English.lproj" -name "*.lproj" -type d -exec echo -r -- {} \;

What this does is find every directory with the extension .lproj and delete it unless it is English.lproj.