How to Restore Manual Translations After Changing Primary Language on Shopify?

Technical Q&A

Topic summary

Issue after changing a Shopify store’s primary language from English to Hungarian: all Hungarian manual translations disappeared. The store uses the Translate & Adapt app, and translations had been exported before the switch.

Attempts and errors: Re-importing the saved translations does not apply to the Hungarian storefront. Import fails with the message: “Your shop does not support this language.” Hungarian content remains missing despite prior manual entries.

Key questions:

  • How to restore the previous state with Hungarian translations intact without further data loss?
  • How to successfully re-import the saved translations and resolve the “does not support this language” error?
  • Is there a reliable way to set Hungarian as the primary language while retaining all manual translations?

Notes: Translate & Adapt is Shopify’s translation app; translations were manually created. No solution or next steps have been confirmed yet; the thread remains open.

Summarized with AI on December 13. AI used: gpt-5.
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Hi everyone,
I recently encountered an issue with my Shopify store and could use some help. Initially, my store’s primary language was English, with Hungarian as the second language. I decided to switch the primary language to Hungarian. After making this change, I lost all my Hungarian translations.

Even though I tried re-importing my translations, they don’t show up for the Hungarian version of the store. Before switching the primary language, I exported my translations, and I use the Translate & Adapt app with manually created translations for both languages.

Here are my main questions:

  1. How can I restore the previous state with my Hungarian translations intact, avoiding further data loss?

  2. How can I successfully re-import my saved translations? When I try to import them, I get the error message: “Your shop does not support this language.”

    Is there a reliable way to set Hungarian as the primary language and retain my manually created translations?

Any advice or solutions would be greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance.