Wrong languages in Services menu!

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Wrong languages in Services menu!

Sometime recently, items in the Services menu (and its contextual menus) have started displaying in Portuguese, Chinese(?), German, as well as English. It affects all applications as far as I can tell. I've set up a test account and the problem doesn't exist there. I've logged out/in and restarted to no effect. It looks to me like a corrupt preference file somewhere but I can't see anything obvious. Any ideas?

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Cheers,
K.S.

iMac 3.06 GHz/4 Gb/500 Gb, eMac Combo, MacBook, iMac Tray, Mac OS X (10.6.4), Cable, stuff

Posted on Nov 2, 2010 8:17 AM

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Answer 1

baltwo

Level 9

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Nov 2, 2010 11:15 AM in response to K.S.

Since the issue is specific to your original user account, you can proceed in two ways. One is to log into your new account, make a list of the preference files (plists) located in /username/Library/Preferences/, including any in the ByHost subfolder, log back into the original account, move everything on that other account's list from the original account's Preferences folder into a newly created folder on the Desktop, log out and back in, and see if the problem goes away. If so, you can copy the ones in the Desktop folder (one at time) back into /Preferences/, restart, and see if the problem returns. If so, you've identified the corrupt/conflicting one. Continue with all of them until isolating the bad ones. That'll save you the trouble of resetting preferences.

The second way is much more detailed and I'll not burden you with the steps unless the above doesn't fix the issue.

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Answer 2

K.S. Author

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Nov 9, 2010 1:08 PM in response to K.S.

I removed two items from my login items – stuff I wasn't using – logged out/in and the problem appears to have been resolved. Since I don't know which item was problematic, they'll remain nameless.

Cheers,
K.S.

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Answer 3

baltwo

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Nov 9, 2010 1:16 PM in response to K.S.

Thanks for the feedback. Good computing.

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