Am 10.07.2011 um 17:20 schrieb Stephan Witt:
>
> Am 09.07.2011 um 23:45 schrieb Paul Rubin:
>
>> David Bickel <davidbickel.com+lists <at> Gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>>
>>> After upgrading from version 1.6 to 2.0 (Windows Vista), I no longer
>>> have access to the words the system recorded whenever I checked
>>> spelling and told it to "Add" a word it flagged as misspelled. I have
>>> no idea where those words were stored. Is there a way I can get
>>> version 2.0 to use them?
>>>
>>
>> Disclaimer: I'm answering from memory (and I'm on a Linux box, so I can't
>> check
>> my memory).
>>
>> I'm pretty sure you are using Aspell as the spellchecker. Aspell records
>> words
>> you've added in a dictionary that I believe is named 'personal.pws'.
>> Depending
>> on whether Aspell is installed for all users or just one user, that could
>> end up
>> being in any of several places. So my suggestion is to use Vista's file
>> search
>> capability to look for files by that name (you may find more than one if
>> you've
>> been adding words in the version of Aspell that LyX 2.0 installed). In
>> fact, I
>> suggest that you start up LyX 2.0, create a dummy document, insert a word
>> that
>> Aspell won't believe ("HonestPolitician", all one word, works on more than
>> one
>> level) and add it when Aspell laughs at you. Now do the search.
>>
>> The personal dictionaries are just text files, so once you find them
>> (hopefully
>> there are now two, old and new), just open them both in Notepad, copy all the
>> good words over to the new one (it will be obvious which is which), delete
>> your
>> pseudoword from the new one, save it and test to see if spell-checking in LyX
>> 2.0 now recognizes words you added in 1.6.
>
> The new ones are located here:
I have to add: this is the case on Windows 7.
> C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\LyX2.0
With Windows XP I find it below
C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\%USERNAME%\Anwendungsdaten\LyX2.0
I don't know where it is stored on Windows Vista...
>
> The names are like pwl_%LANGUAGE%.dict
>
> To find the location of the old ones try the following command:
>
> C:\> aspell config personal-path
>
> Stephan
