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Q: Unable to change region

I am trying to change from Swedish region to Swiss region but I am unable to get the changes to stay after I switch.

 

I go into system preferences -> Language and Region and there I am trying to change.

 

The only thing I have set to Swedish is the keyboard. But I have tried to change that but it does not help.

 

Running 10.9 on an late 2013 iMac.

iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Nov 7, 2013 8:01 AM

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  • by Linc Davis,

    Linc Davis Linc Davis Nov 7, 2013 12:06 PM in response to rmwalker
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    Nov 7, 2013 12:06 PM in response to rmwalker
    Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
    ~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist

    Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
       
    Services Show Info in Finder
      
    from the contextual menu.* An Info dialog should open.
    • Does the dialog show "You can read and write" in the Sharing & Permissions section?
    • In the General section, is the box labeled Locked checked?
    • What is the Modified date?
    If you don't have read and write access to the file, change the settings as directed here. Note, however, that if one file has wrong access settings, most likely others do as well.
       
    *If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Open a TextEdit window and paste into it (command-V). Select the line you just pasted and continue as above.
  • by rmwalker,

    rmwalker rmwalker Nov 8, 2013 1:11 AM in response to Linc Davis
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    Nov 8, 2013 1:11 AM in response to Linc Davis

    Thank you for quick reply, I checked all these settings but they wre not locked and I have read and write permission for the main user. I tried the same thing on my MacBook Air running 10.9 and there I didn't have any problems changing the setting.

     

    The file was modified yesterday afternoon, I guess I was trying to fix it around that time.

     

    http://i41.tinypic.com/2eutx7c.jpg

     

    Made a screen recording.

  • by Linc Davis,

    Linc Davis Linc Davis Nov 8, 2013 6:02 AM in response to rmwalker
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    Nov 8, 2013 6:02 AM in response to rmwalker

    Back up all data.

     

    Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:

    mv L*/P*/.GlobalPreferences.plist Desktop/GlobalPreferences.plist

      

    Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.

     

    Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:

     

    ☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)

     

    ☞ In the Finder, select Go Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.

     

    ☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.

     

    Paste into the Terminal window (command-V). A file named "GlobalPreferences.plist" will appear on the Desktop.

      

    Log out and log back in. Test. If the problem is resolved, you'll need to recreate some of your settings in System Preferences. You can then delete the file on the Desktop. Otherwise post your results.
  • by rmwalker,

    rmwalker rmwalker Nov 8, 2013 8:46 AM in response to Linc Davis
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    Nov 8, 2013 8:46 AM in response to Linc Davis

    That didn't do the trick either. I have tried changing to Swedish and then changing region but that doesn't help even though it prompts me to reboot. I found this really odd, perhaps a bug in certain combinations with 10.9?

  • by Linc Davis,

    Linc Davis Linc Davis Nov 8, 2013 9:12 AM in response to rmwalker
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    Nov 8, 2013 9:12 AM in response to rmwalker

    Problems such as yours are sometimes caused by files that should belong to you but are locked or have wrong permissions. This procedure will check for such files. It makes no changes and therefore will not, in itself, solve your problem.

    First, empty the Trash.

    Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it, then copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C:

    find ~ $TMPDIR.. \( -flags +sappnd,schg,uappnd,uchg -o ! -user $UID -o ! -perm -600 -o -acl \) 2> /dev/null | wc -l

    Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:

    ☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)

    ☞ In the Finder, select Go Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.

    ☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.

    Paste into the Terminal window (command-V). The command may take a noticeable amount of time to run. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign (“$”) to appear.

    The output of this command, on a line directly below what you entered, will be a number such as "41." Please post it in a reply.

  • by rmwalker,

    rmwalker rmwalker Nov 8, 2013 9:15 AM in response to Linc Davis
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    Nov 8, 2013 9:15 AM in response to Linc Davis

    Got 82

  • by Linc Davis,

    Linc Davis Linc Davis Nov 8, 2013 9:50 AM in response to rmwalker
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    Nov 8, 2013 9:50 AM in response to rmwalker

    Back up all data. Don't continue unless you're sure you can restore from a backup, even if you're unable to log in.

    This procedure will unlock all your user files (not system files) and reset their ownership and access-control lists to the default. If you've set special values for those attributes on any of your files, they will be reverted. In that case, either stop here, or be prepared to recreate the settings if necessary. Do so only after verifying that those settings didn't cause the problem. If none of this is meaningful to you, you don't need to worry about it.

     

    Step 1

    If you have more than one user account, and the one in question is not an administrator account, then temporarily promote it to administrator status in the Users & Groups preference pane. To do that, unlock the preference pane using the credentials of an administrator, check the box marked Allow user to administer this computer, then reboot. You can demote the problem account back to standard status when this step has been completed.

    Enter the following command in the Terminal window in the same way as before (triple-click, copy, and paste):

    { sudo chflags -R nouchg,nouappnd ~ $TMPDIR.. ; sudo chown -R $UID:staff ~ $_ ; sudo chmod -R u+rwX ~ $_ ; chmod -R -N ~ $_ ; } 2> /dev/null

    This time you'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. If you don’t have a login password, you’ll need to set one before you can run the command. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.

     

    The command will take a noticeable amount of time to run. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign (“$”) to appear, then quit Terminal.

    Step 2 (optional)

     

    Take this step only if you have trouble with Step 1 or if it doesn't solve the problem.

    Boot into Recovery. When the OS X Utilities screen appears, select

    Utilities Terminal

    from the menu bar. A Terminal window will open.

    In the Terminal window, type this:

    res

     

    Press the tab key. The partial command you typed will automatically be completed to this:

    resetpassword

     

    Press return. A Reset Password window will open. You’re not  going to reset a password.

    Select your boot volume ("Macintosh HD," unless you gave it a different name) if not already selected.

    Select your username from the menu labeled Select the user account if not already selected.

    Under Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs, click the Reset button.

    Select

    Restart

    from the menu bar.

  • by rmwalker,

    rmwalker rmwalker Nov 8, 2013 11:56 PM in response to Linc Davis
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    Nov 8, 2013 11:56 PM in response to Linc Davis

    Unfortuneatly that didn't help either, still just defaults back to Sweden - Swedish setting.

  • by Linc Davis,

    Linc Davis Linc Davis Nov 9, 2013 8:38 AM in response to rmwalker
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    Nov 9, 2013 8:38 AM in response to rmwalker

    Can you change to any other region?

  • by rmwalker,

    rmwalker rmwalker Nov 9, 2013 9:16 AM in response to Linc Davis
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    Nov 9, 2013 9:16 AM in response to Linc Davis

    No, I have tried several different ones. Adding a second language and trying to change on that one hasn't helped either. The computer is 3 days old and the first thing I did was to install 10.9

  • by Linc Davis,

    Linc Davis Linc Davis Nov 9, 2013 12:01 PM in response to rmwalker
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    Nov 9, 2013 12:01 PM in response to rmwalker

    Have you transferred data from another computer or installed any software?

  • by rmwalker,

    rmwalker rmwalker Nov 9, 2013 12:23 PM in response to Linc Davis
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    Nov 9, 2013 12:23 PM in response to Linc Davis

    Yea, I ran the Windows migrate assistant upon first bootup.

  • by Linc Davis,

    Linc Davis Linc Davis Nov 9, 2013 3:07 PM in response to rmwalker
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    Nov 9, 2013 3:07 PM in response to rmwalker

    Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:

     

    defaults read -g  AppleLocale| open -ef

      

    Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.

     

    Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:

     

    ☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)

     

    ☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.

     

    ☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.

     

    Paste into the Terminal window by pressing the key combination command-V. I've tested these instructions only with the Safari web browser. If you use another browser, you may have to press the return key after pasting.

     

    Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign (“$”) to appear.

     

    A TextEdit window will open with the output of the command. If the command produced no output, the window will be empty. Post the contents of the TextEdit window (not the Terminal window), if any — the text, please, not a screenshot. The title of the window doesn't matter, and you don't need to post that.

  • by rmwalker,

    rmwalker rmwalker Nov 9, 2013 10:16 PM in response to Linc Davis
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    Nov 9, 2013 10:16 PM in response to Linc Davis

    en_EG

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