The Languages window contains a list of language resource (.lproj) folders found in the places you told File Buddy to search. The following information is included:
- Language
The name of each language that was found, localized in that language. For example, French will appear as “Français” and Japanese will appear as “日本語.”
- ICU
The International Components for Unicode canonical language identifier for the language. For example, “en” is the ICU identifier for both “English.lproj” and “en.lproj” folders.
- Folders
The total number of language folders found for this language, which is the same as the number of applications, plug-ins, and other bundles which have translations in the language.
- Items
The total number of files and directories in all the language folders found for this language.
- Space Used
The total disk space used by the resources for this language.
The last row in the language list is always dimmed and says “Totals:” in the Language column. The totals in this column are for all languages in the list, selected and unselected.
Select one or more languages in the list and click the Info button to open an Info window for those language folders. Use this to view detailed information about each individual folder.
Select one or more languages in the list and click the View in List button, or double-click any of the selected languages in the list, to open a List window containing all of the folders for the selected language or languages.
When the Languages window opens, it contains “Disk Space Used” information at the bottom of the window. The number represents the total amount of disk space used by the currently selected languages. Click this information to cycle through other total statistics for the selected items.
Select one or more languages in the list and click the
Delete to delete the languages from your hard drive. File Buddy will not delete English resources because some parts of the system require them, nor will it remove all languages. If you use this option, File Buddy will immediately delete the specified language resources from the locations searched. There is no option to move them to the trash.
While removing language resources you don’t use should be safe, it’s possible that one or more software products you use might make unexpected assumptions about language resource availability. As such, SkyTag Software cannot guarantee that you will not experience unexpected results if you delete language resources. This should not be the case, but we have no control over how other software is written. A safer approach to removing unused languages is to disable the languages you want to delete, use your Mac for a week or two to ensure there are no problems, and then delete disabled languages. If you encounter any problems you can simply reenable the problem languages without having to reinstall anything.
