Hi Jim, Try the following: 1. Press, Windows + R, to open the Run dialogue, type in, a single period, & press enter. This should take you to your name folder in the Users folder of your operating system drive. 2. Press enter on, APPData, arrow down to, Roaming, & press enter. 3. Press the letter, F, until you land on Freedom Scientific, & press enter. 4. Press the letter, J, & with Jaws highlighted press enter. 5. You will now be in a list of the installed versions of Jaws. Highlight the version you want to copy the DEFAULT.JDF file of, the, DEFAULT.JDF, file is your dictionary file, & press enter. 6. Press the spacebar on, Settings, press enter, press the spacebar on, ENU, & press enter. Now, press the letter, D, until you land on, DEFAULT.JDF, & press, Control + C to copy it to the clipboard. 7. Press the Backspace Key or Alt + left arrow until you are back in your list of installed Jaws versions. 8. Now, arrow down to the version of Jaws you want to copy your dictionary file to, press enter, press the spacebar on, Settings, press enter, press the spacebar on, ENU, & press enter. Press, Control + V, to paste the dictionary file into this Jaws version. You will get a dialogue stating that this file already exists, & would you like to overwrite it, or something like that, tab to the, Yes button, & press enter.
You have just moved your default dictionary. Just to make sure everything is cool unload Jaws & reload it. HTH Take care. Mike This email was sent from my, iBarstool. Go Dodgers, next year anyways! ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim Hamilton via Jfw To: 'Soronel Haetir' ; 'The Jaws for Windows support list.' Cc: Jim Hamilton Sent: Friday, November 06, 2015 12:45 PM Subject: RE: merge utility - copying "library files" ... It has just occurred to me that I have NEVER copied my dictionairy files from 1 version to another. I did not know that it should be done. No wonder I kept wondering why I had to keep adding items, that I knew should be there, into my dictionairy! I just assumed that it was a JAWS peculiarity. So, would someone put me out my misery and provide some easy-to-follow instructions on how to copy my dictionairy files to new versions? Thanks much. Jim H -----Original Message----- From: Soronel Haetir [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, November 5, 2015 11:41 AM To: The Jaws for Windows support list. <[email protected]> Subject: Re: merge utility That would be okay but I have thousands of dictionary entries (enough so that I run into the hard limits of 2000 entries for each of the default and program dictionaries). And also enough that I have problems each year as FS expands the default dictionary (and unfortunately most of those additions are for languages other than English and so I end up deleting them). On 11/5/15, Carolyn Arnold via Jfw <[email protected]> wrote: > All this time, I have reconstructed my dictionary from version to > version, as well as speak dollar last, speed, etc.It is surprising how > fast I have gotten since JAWS 4.5 up to 17. > > Bye for now, > > Carolyn > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Soronel > Haetir via Jfw > Sent: Thursday, November 5, 2015 12:42 AM > To: The Jaws for Windows support list. <[email protected]> > Cc: Soronel Haetir <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: merge utility > > Note that at least in the case of dictionary and script files you don't > actually have to start over, you just have to copy the files yourself. I > don't know if there are enough differences to actually make that not work > for .jcf files or not, I didn't try with those. > > On 11/4/15, Adrian Spratt via Jfw <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm going to write to FS Tech Support and ask for this deficiency to >> be fixed. I hope others will do the same so they realize how important > this is. >> Can you imagine a popular commercial application forcing users to >> start all over again with the settings they've created over the course >> of years? Note that "merge" was misspelled in the subject line, which > I've corrected. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Maria >> Campbell via Jfw >> Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2015 5:43 PM >> To: The Jaws for Windows support list. >> Cc: Maria Campbell >> Subject: Re: murge utility >> >> I agree completely. Enough said. >> >> On 11/4/2015 4:23 PM, Aidan via Jfw wrote: >>> Hello. >>> >>> I'm very upset for fs removing the murg utility option in jaws 17. >>> They have the excuse that older version settings can know longer >>> being important in 17. I don't know if I must laugh. If they new that >>> it would happen, why did they not make a priority to implement a >>> replacement tool wich could be in 17? >>> Now you have to manually change everything? Is it possible perhaps to >>> use the settings packager to acomplish that? >>> I find it so tragic that they spend the hole year on smart >>> navigation, wich is not even such a remarkable feature, really this >>> was going to be more bennifishil to more people and now that its not >>> ready it will affect everyone negatively. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Jfw mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com >>> >> >> -- >> >> Sunny Day >> Maria Campbell >> [email protected] >> >> Trials without God will break you. 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