This is a trick I use to save space on my Macs HDDs, and it is impressing how much space you can save. The idea is to remove the additional languages installed by any application to your HD.

To make it, 2 easy steps, the result is -90% of space size occupied by each application (iChat went from 114 MB to 12 MB) and of course, faster to load applications.

Before making it, go to your applications folder, and sort the applications by size, then select on of the applications that takes the more space, for this tutorial, I’m going to select Mail.app

1. Select the application file and make a “command + i” to see the informations on that application, here is what I get:

   

2. Go to languages and select the languages you don’t need then click on the “-” button in the information window under the languages, you’ll be invited to move them to the trash, and click ‘OK’:

   

3. Let’s now take a look at how much space the application takes now on the HD:

   

Results: the application used to take 227.5 MB and now it takes 27.9 MB, we saved 200 MB!!!
Try doing it with the whole iLife suite and you’ll get approx 2 GB of additional space in your HD..

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