Thanks so much for everybody's help on this but I finally managed to get the spellchecker working.
For anybody else who may be having problems: The problem is due to having been a LyX user since 2005 and earlier, different version installations had installed stuff EVERYWHERE. In order to have a clean installation I had to uninstall and delete all Aspell and lyX folders -from document and settings folder under ALL THREE categories: all users, administrator and my own. There was a strange little folder titled .lyx that dated 2005 so delete that too. Also clean out the registry. THEN use the windows installer. When you reinstall it should tell you that you have to download and install dictionary files - which indicates you have cleaned out sufficiently. Cheers! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 October 2007 09:30 To: Rosanna Chan Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Lyx 1.5.1 and LyX 1.5.2 Spellchecker Could not be started Rosanna Chan schrieb: > Should I try to contact a developer (how does one do that :)) or should I > report this as a bug? Before doing this, could you please check if it works this way: - uninstall LyX 1.5.1 and/or LyX 1.5.2 - uninstall all Aspell dictionaries - ininstall Aspell itself in case you see it as installed after you uninstalled the dictionaries - reinstall LyX 1.5.2 using this installer: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller When this works this installer sets up the system so that your Aspell will be uninstalled together with LyX when you upgrade to another LyX version to assure that you'll have a working Aspell version regards Uwe
