94 Macworld • August 2019HELP DESK
Help Desk
Glenn Fleishman answers your most vexing Mac problemsStuck in macOS Recovery with a language
you don’t speak? Here’s how to fix this
When you start up a Mac while holding down
Command-R on the keyboard, the Mac boots into
macOS Recovery. In this mode, you can run Disk
Utility, access the command-line Terminal app, and
reinstall the operating system. But what do you do
if you restart your Mac into Recovery mode and a
language appears other than one you know?
This doesn’t seem to happen at random, but
it can occur when you’ve purchased a computer