Can't Change my system's language

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Can't Change my system's language

Hi,

I'm Portuguese and so, It would be expectable that my system's language was also Portuguese and it was, but now suddenly changed to English and it doesn't allow me to add Portuguese back again in settings. Whenever I try to add the new language, it goes everything normal until I realised that nothing has changed: English remains the main language and Portuguese doesn't even appear in the language's list. I tried with another languages and I also tried the command in Terminal "Languagesetup" but every time I try to add Portuguese, it just says that the permission was denied. Can you help me?

MacBook Pro with Retina display, macOS Sierra (10.12.3)

Posted on Mar 6, 2017 2:30 PM

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Answer 1

Tom Gewecke

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Mar 7, 2017 6:20 PM in response to lvc.chaves

See this earlier discussion

Re: impossible to change language on my macbook pro sierra

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lvc.chaves Author

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Mar 6, 2017 4:58 PM in response to cdhw

Hi,

thanks for the reply. In fact, your method makes sense, it sorts out the "permission denied" issue on Terminal. But, right after that, I restarted my mac and absolutely nothing changes: the main language is English and I still can't add any other language. So, do you think there is some type of 3rd-party app ou service that is making that happen, because lately I've been installing some apps?

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lvc.chaves Author

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Mar 7, 2017 4:32 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

Hi,

thanks for your answer! I've created another user and there the language thing worked perfectly fine. So, I guess that I have an app or a file that is creating some type of conflict with the languages. Is there any method to make sure that there is indeed an app that is causing the problem or if it is something else?

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Answer 4

cdhw

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Mar 6, 2017 4:09 PM in response to lvc.chaves

You need to use:

sudo Languagesetup

as the terminal command from an admin account. (If you only have one account that's the one!) You need to type the accounts password to authorise the change.

C.

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Answer 5

Tom Gewecke

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Mar 6, 2017 6:23 PM in response to lvc.chaves

Try setting up a new user account and see if you can get the right language when logged into that.

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