To demonstrate OSX's Chinese language capabilities I moved Chinese to the top of the language list in System Preferences > International. I got this to work fine, and all the menus etc come out in Chinese (I'm a bit of a Chinese scholar you see). Now I want to revert to English (for my normal working life) and when I try to open System Preferences it just crashes and says the application failed to open. It says do I want to try again. I do this and it crashes again. The third time System Preferences does finally open and it seems that I can reinstate English. I get a message saying do I want to use the new settings or keep the original ones. I have tried both these options but OSX is still refusing to change back the language settings. I have tried it many many times, rebooted the powerbook a bunch of times, always the same - seems like I'm stuck with Chinese!!! Help!
Cannot change back OSX language setting - help!
- Thread starter Ben Hayes
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OK I've run repair disk and repair permissions from the install disk. It did repair a few things but it still hasn't helped the problem, which is the same as before.
Fryke: I think I am changing the settings for just the application 'System Preferences' becuase when I close it, it says 'new settings have been made for the application System Preferences, do you want to use these new settings or revert to the original ones?'. If I chose 'use new settings' it still crashes when I next open that application, no change. If I choose 'use original settings' there's no change either... any other ideas? It's a real pain if I have to reinstall the OS again just to fix this... thanks.
Fryke: I think I am changing the settings for just the application 'System Preferences' becuase when I close it, it says 'new settings have been made for the application System Preferences, do you want to use these new settings or revert to the original ones?'. If I chose 'use new settings' it still crashes when I next open that application, no change. If I choose 'use original settings' there's no change either... any other ideas? It's a real pain if I have to reinstall the OS again just to fix this... thanks.
I already had 10.4.5 installed. Anyway I took the plunge and spent most of today just rebuilding everything from scratch. Kind of nice to have a fresh system, although a bit of a waste of time. Also I forgot to port over a bunch of stock images I'd purchased which is really annoying!
I'd be interested to know how often this happens with OSX, that it becomes unstable, requiring a new install. I kind of assumed, based on Apple's reputation, that it was something that never happened.
I'm sure if I'd had more time I could maybe have gone into an Apple store and got a genius to look at it and maybe they would have figured it out eventually.
I'd be interested to know how often this happens with OSX, that it becomes unstable, requiring a new install. I kind of assumed, based on Apple's reputation, that it was something that never happened.
I'm sure if I'd had more time I could maybe have gone into an Apple store and got a genius to look at it and maybe they would have figured it out eventually.