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Background: I am an American foreign exchange student currently in Germany.
I dropped my PowerBook G4 on its corner about two weeks ago, damaging its hard drive. We brought it into the Apple Store, and they put a new hard drive into my laptop, along with all of my old data.
Problems:
1). Now, EVERYTHING on my laptop (menus, the keyboard, all of my applications) are in German, and despite how many times I go to the System Preferences (or, as it is now called, "Systemeinstellungen") and change the language to English, everything remains in German.
2). Many of my macintosh applications will not open, such as iPhoto and iTunes. I have tried to throw away and redownload at least iTunes, yet my computer will NOT let me throw anything away.
3). Personal preferences in general will NOT save, such as the language options as I said, but also I cannot even change the desktop image, and each time I try to open many applications, it is as if I am using it for the first time (example: with iChat or Adium, it makes me refill in all my registration information each time I use it).
There are so many problems and inconsistencies within my computer now, I feel like I don‘t even know it anymore
I‘m sorry my descriptions are not very specific, but I often cannot even read the specifics of the GERMAN alert boxes that pop up. Please feel free to ask me to clarify things!!
Thank you so much for reading, and I would appreciate any help! I want my baby back to normal :/. Although, I guess I should probably just bring it back to the Apple store.
I dropped my PowerBook G4 on its corner about two weeks ago, damaging its hard drive. We brought it into the Apple Store, and they put a new hard drive into my laptop, along with all of my old data.
Problems:
1). Now, EVERYTHING on my laptop (menus, the keyboard, all of my applications) are in German, and despite how many times I go to the System Preferences (or, as it is now called, "Systemeinstellungen") and change the language to English, everything remains in German.
2). Many of my macintosh applications will not open, such as iPhoto and iTunes. I have tried to throw away and redownload at least iTunes, yet my computer will NOT let me throw anything away.
3). Personal preferences in general will NOT save, such as the language options as I said, but also I cannot even change the desktop image, and each time I try to open many applications, it is as if I am using it for the first time (example: with iChat or Adium, it makes me refill in all my registration information each time I use it).
There are so many problems and inconsistencies within my computer now, I feel like I don‘t even know it anymore
I‘m sorry my descriptions are not very specific, but I often cannot even read the specifics of the GERMAN alert boxes that pop up. Please feel free to ask me to clarify things!!
Thank you so much for reading, and I would appreciate any help! I want my baby back to normal :/. Although, I guess I should probably just bring it back to the Apple store.