macOS and many applications have been translated into a large number of languages, most of which are never used.
Cocktail can automatically scan the computer and delete any languages that are not being used, freeing space by
deleting hundreds, or thousands, of files from the disk.
To delete languages go to Files and select Localizations. Press Options to select the languages to delete and where
Cocktail should search for localization files. Cocktail can scan the following three folders:
Selecting a language means that all dialects and variants belonging to this group will also be deleted. For example,
selecting Portuguese will also delete Brazilian Portuguese. This applies to most languages so be careful when
deleting languages such as Chinese, Arabic and Spanish.
Note that English cannot be deleted, as macOS requires this language to function correctly.
The first scan can take a while to complete (on some configurations the process can take several hours); following
this scans should be much faster. It is recommended that you delete localization files regularly as system and
software updates tend to replace language files.
This feature is not compatible with System Integrity Protection.