August 2019 • Macworld 95HELP DESKfrom someone who installed the system using
another language, which can remain in place in the
Recovery partition, a separately organized part
of your startup drive. Fortunately, there are a few
ways to resolve this.
- Choose the third menu from the left, which is
labelled File when in English, and pick the first
option, which is labelled Change Language
in English. You should be able to select the
languageyouwant. - Launch Terminal, which is in the fifth menu from
the left, labelled Utilities in English. The apps
have icons next to them, and Terminal is a little
rectangle with a prompt in it. After Terminal
launches, type sudo languagesetup and press
Return.Youcanthenselectthelanguagetouse. - If you have a Keyboard menu at the far right of
the screen, you can select the one with a tiny
UKflagtoswitchtoEnglish. - If all else fails, you can reinstall macOS by
restarting your Mac and then holding down
Command-Alt-R. This will redownload installation
files and prompt you for a language choice, while
also upgrading the Recovery partition. It won’t
overwrite your hard drive, but installs in place the
latest version of OS that works on your computer.
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