No, but the problem is: Each language creates a new page of the original one, and if you try to add more languages at once on a large site, you can run into timeouts.

The way is: Add first language (beside the portals locale), enable it, create the localized pages, disable it, add the next language etc. Never create the localized pages when more than the portal's locale are enabled. At the end of the day you may enable the other locales.

(This is not from my personal experience, as I am not using the core localitazion. Someone told me it's the way to do, and this is a person I trust...)

Best wishes
Michael

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Chris,

if you haven't turned it on, then it's not the problem. At the moment there is no way to turn it off except restoring a backup that you made before you turned it on.

You can't disable the portal's default language, sorry if I did not say it clear enough before. But if you create the localized versions of all pages, you should disable any other languages before (except the portals's default and the language you want to create the pages).

Best wishes
Michael

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