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    Apr 23, 2019 4 minutes
    BY GLENN FLEISHMAN

    STUCK IN MACOS RECOVERY WITH A LANGUAGE YOU DON’T SPEAK? HERE’S WHAT YOU CAN DO 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 from 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.

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