Installers Should Copy Personal Dictionary

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

This was a bug report on the user's list: On Windows, the personal 
dictionary apparently was not copied over to the new user directory. We 
might check that this is done on OSX, as well.


Riki



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Subject: 	Re: Location of personal dictionary
Date: 	Tue, 16 Jul 2024 11:26:50 +0200
From: 	Matthias Schmidt <gm at schmidtfamilie.de>
To: 	Jürgen Spitzmüller <jspitzm at gmail.com>, lyx-users at lists.lyx.org
CC: 	lyx-users at lists.lyx.org



Thank you very much for your help. I was able to solve the problem.

I use Windows 10. I found the file - in my case pwl_ngerman.dict - in 
the directory C:\user\'myname'\Appdata\Roaming\LyX2.3.

Matthias




Monday, July 15, 2024, 6:19:14 PM, schrieben Sie:


    Am Montag, dem 15.07.2024 um 11:58 -0400 schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck:

        LyX does not handle this itself. Rather, it is using some other
        backend spellchecker, like Hunspell (also used by Chrome, Firefox,
        LibreOffice, etc). If you look under Tools> Preferences> Language
        Settings> Spellchecker, you can find out what spell checker is being
        used. Then try searching the web for info on where the personal
        dictionary is stored.


    The spell checkers have their own files, yes.


    However, LyX also stores personal word lists under the name
    pwl_<language>.dict (I am not sure it is used by all spell checker
    backends, but it is at least by aspell, hunspell and enchant).


    These files are located in your user directory (see Help > About LyX
    for where this is).


    On some OSes (Mac I think), each major version has its own user
    directory (with a version suffix). You might find your files in the one
    of 2.3 and then copy them to the 2.4 directory.


    Ideally, these files should be copied over by the installers on
    upgrading, as we do with other files.


    -- 
    Jürgen



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Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Matthias Schmidt
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