achinoam01: Multilingual Photoshop CS5 suddenly talks only English

Friday, September 30, 2011

Multilingual Photoshop CS5 suddenly talks only English

Last week I was asked how it could be that a German Photoshop CS5 from one day to another 'forgot' the German language and only shows English menus and dialog boxes.

I thought this couldn't be -- maybe the German resource had vanished or the order of the languages in the System Preferences was wrong.

But the German localization files in Contents » Resources were there, and the German language was the first language in System Preferences so I did some research on the issue.

Photoshop CS5 needs a file named tw10428.dat in a subfolder named Locales » de_DE » Support Files of its application directory.

If you install a new scanner or camera there might be dialog box that asks if the TWAIN driver should be updated/replaced. In some cases this results in moving this .dat-File to the Trash and Photoshop forgets its multilingual capability. Check before you empty the Trash. In my case it was also possible to c ...