Finder sidebar language problem after El Capitan upgrade

Hi there!

I am having a very annoying problem with the language on the Finder sidebar, some folders like Applications, Downloads and Desktop are constantly changing from English to Spanish in a infinite loop, like 2 times per second. This is very, very, very annoying and stressful.


The first time something similar to this happened was in Yosemite, when I switched the language from Spanish to English (the mac was originally set in Spanish). Some finder windows opened at english and others at spanish. Since the only difference was a couple of folders in the sidebar I didn't bother to fix the problem (I am native to spanish, so isn't a big deal).


But now in El Capitan the bug just become exponential. Every Finder window keeps looping between both languages like crazy. I already check my preferences and I don't have any other language in the Language & Region except from English.


I really hope someone can help me with this problem or at least give me a clue.


Cheers,

Alejandro

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MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11)

Posted on Oct 3, 2015 7:31 AM

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Oct 7, 2015 1:29 PM in response to alelepd

had the same annoying issue ...


this solved it for me:

1) delete ~/Library/Preference/com.apple.finder.plist

2) goto to System Preferences > Language & Region

change primary Language to an other language (but not the current one, for me it was german)

3) restart mac

4) goto to System Preferences > Language & Region

this time change it back to the original language - which you want to use (for me it was english)

5) restart mac

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