Hello,
My Mac is stuck in English, despite the fact that I set it to French in System Preferences > Language. I placed French on top, relogged, restarted, shut down... No luck, the Finder and all my apps stay in English.
Any idea why?
Loa
Is it possible someone has used monolingual or a similar app to remove languages to save space?
Can you please test the following steps?
//Raefael
Hello,
Tom: I have used Monolingual in the past, but I'm 100% sure I never erased French: I use it on a daily basis. Also, I'm pretty sure I didn't use it with Mountain Lion.
Raefael: I did, and got the full list, but when I try to set it to French (#2 for me), I get the message that the language is set to japanese...
Can I install the languages without reinstalling ML?
Loa
Hello,
Looks like I can't edite my last post: I made a mistake, French was #3, not #2. After selecting French, I get the message that the language is set to French. I then restart, only to find the Mac still in English from the Finder to all my apps.
Loa
Does that issue appear right after u installing ML?
//Raefael
Loa wrote:
Can I install the languages without reinstalling ML?
I don't think so. (It used to be possible when you got the OS on a CD)
Hello,
Raefael: I think so.
Tom: I think I could redownload from the apple store and explore the contents of the files.
Loa
Is that the same issue if you test it in a other, „new created“ user account?
Acording to Tom's idea, im also not sure if the language packs are installable during a reinstall of Mountain Lion.
Was the installation process in French or in English? Maybe it would help if you choose french during the installation.
//Raefael
Loa wrote:
Tom: I think I could redownload from the apple store and explore the contents of the files.
Might be worth a try, using the app Pacifist. I don't know what to look for, however. Before 10.7 there were Language Translations installers found in an OptionalInstalls.mpkg
Hello,
Pacifist can find all the French files, but they're all over the place, not sure if I can install them all at once. I really don't want to go through a fresh install process.
Quick quesiton: can you guys look into the Finder app and see if you find a French.lproj in there? There isn't one in mine, so it's no wonder I can't get a French Finder.
Thanks
Loa
P.S. Finder is here: Boot Volume/System/Library/CoreServices/Finder/Contents/Resources/
Once you get to the Finder, right click and select "Open Package" to continue.
Loa wrote:
see if you find a French.lproj
The presence of french.lproj folders in every app is what provides French language localization of the user interface. It's absence means it got removed by something like Monolingual or otherwise somehow never got installed. But normallly ML installs 30 localizations by default.
Hello,
I still don't know why the additional localizations were not there, but Pacifist allowed me to install them. I only tried with Finder and it works: I'm now going to try and install all the French.lproj files back in.
As an additional note, to enable the spell checker for those new localizations, you also need to add similar .lproj files to "Boot/System/Library/Services/AppleSpell.service/".
In my case the French dictionary was installed, but my apps wouldn't spell check. Adding the French.lproj file to that AppleSpell.service fixed it.
Thanks for the help,
Loa
Hello,
Well, adding the hundreds of French.lproj files in one go just bogged Pacifist down. It took more than an hour just to acknowledge (beachballing) the fact that I had selected them all, then another hour of processing until it (probably) caused memory problems and I had to force quit it...
Luckily, all I really needed was the French spell check, not the localization (until today I thought it was the same files).
Loa
I can't change my Mac's language
