Create another user (Spanish) in login page

Hi Yellowbox!

I've just tried what you suggest but the other way round (Spanish admin and English guest), and it didn't work. I logged in the guest account and switched language to English, but after logging in with my main user account there was a mixed Spanish-English interface. All those settings disappeared after a restart, and everything was back to Spanish, including the guest user 😟.

It's really a shame, because that feature would be useful for me too. Sometimes it's a bit hard to answer questions in English while working on a Spanish interface 😁

Just for kicks I tried this too.

Yup, the "Language" seems to be only at the OS Level, not individually changeable on differing per user basis.

One workaround, if I were forced, would be to run another copy of Mac OSX in a VM, and pop open that windowed session on an as needed basis, so that I could instantly switch back to my real personal account in one click, for speed and efficiency in a workday.

¡De nada! 😉

There should be no problem running a new user account (not the "guest") in a different language. I have the impression many people do this. You should be able to easily switch between them using Fast User Switching. But I have not tried doing it all with El Capitan yet...

OS X Yosemite: Switch quickly between users

Yellowbox wrote:

With an Español user space, I hope to open apps such as Numbers and Pages in Español for Español screen shots.

For that purpose, you can normally just move Spanish to the top of your language list but not restart. All apps should then open in Spanish while the OS stays in English. Then close the apps and move Spanish back down the list. All apps should then open in English.

There is also an app called Language Switcher which will open apps in any language without changing the OS language. I have not yet tried it in El Capitan however.