Monolingual ate my OS X

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No more than 24 hours after getting my brand new Macbook was I reinstalling Mac OS X from the restore CDs. For this feat I can take no credit. That credit goes to Monolingual. What seemed like a novel idea, to save some precious hard drive space by deleting unused language files, turned out to be a “How to reinstall Mac OS X” lesson.

For some reason, Monolingual strips out PPC binary code on Intel Mac’s, by default no less. This totally kills Rosetta. Not cool. No where in the FAQ or documentation does it say to not run this with those options turned on for Intel Mac’s. To be fair, Monolingual did save me space but only because I unchecked the extra language files and programs when i was running the restore.