Finder shows some things in Chinese

For some reason finder is showing the 'kind' and, in some cases, the file name in Chinese. I'm using 'British English' as my main language.

What could be causing this, and how do I fix it?

iMac + 17" Macbook Pro + 13" Macbook + 32Gb iPhone 3GS + Space Capsule + Mac min, Mac OS X (10.6)

Posted on Sep 21, 2009 5:28 PM

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Sep 22, 2009 1:52 AM in response to Fustbariclation

Here's a funny thing - I thought that the fix of changing to one language had worked. It has, for most views.

However, when I look at the finder under 'Today', 'Yesterday' or 'Past Week', I find quite a lot of files either have their names or types in Japanese - when I look at the same file in its home directory, the language is back to English.

I've tried rebooting and re-starting Finder, but it seems a pretty hard error.

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