Location of personal dictionary

[Matthias Schmidt]

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.



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Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Matthias Schmidt
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