Location of personal dictionary

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

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