For Win XPO users:
I went through all this too - I like to use several user dictionaries for just the purposes you say - special names, company names, a specialist technical dictionary, and so forth (I have one for foreign phrases and Latin phrases too). Backing them up in case of crashes or to transfer all that work onwards involved finding the stored files under something like "program files/OO/users/wordbook" in version 2. It proved impossible in version 3 to find the user/directory etc in Windows at least. But I was advised they are under the "documents and settings" folder in Windows XP The path is C:\Documents and Settings\YourName\Application Data\OpenOffice.org\3\user\wordbook They can be copied and replaced as far as I know though I am not sure if OO will recognise inserted replacements - I tried adding in a new one from outside and it did not show in the OO list of user dictionaries. There is also a macro for copying dictionary files to a text file outside and then importing that back in. It works a bit oddly too in that it is supposed to copy to a plain text file as a list. But if you open the dic files in the path above it is not a simple text representation but has various odd symbols and all this gets copied over too. I am still not sure if this is the answer because of these peculiarities. There is something happening with the files that is unexplained and which may affect how well the back-up works. I would love to hear a better explanation - maybe from the developers who would know what is going on. Adrian PS Here is part of the answers I got when I started a similar discussion a while ago ****** > You may copy your user-defined dictionaries (*.dic) to -> > <...Documents_and_Settings\[name]\Application_Data\OpenOffice.org\3\us > er\wordbook> ... and if that doesn't work ... [from a former reply:] ... you may also try out -> OOo Dictionary Importer/Exporter - Import/Export Text File into/from OOo Dictionary Author: Russ Phillips <quote> This macro has a GUI that makes it simple to import words from a text file into an OOo dictionary, or to export an OOo dictionary to a text file for easier editing. </quote> Latest release: Version 1.1 (June 21, 2004) <http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=87718&package_id=1146 94> Please set 'Macro Security' to 'Medium' before starting the macro -> Tools | Options | OpenOffice.org | Security -> Macro security -> >Macro Security ...< -> [X] Medium Manfred ********* I am unsure if the version 1.1 macro fully copes with version 3. It seems to run. I hope that helps further. -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Lange - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 November 2008 07:45 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [users] Re: Dictionary backups Hi Gene, >> Thus the proper solution for a user is to make use of dictionary >> extension only. >> >> >> Regards, >> Thomas >> > > That answer totally ignores the fact that many of us ADD words to the standard dictionary for what > ever reason. (I add unusual place and person names for my genealogy research and technical terms for > my work.) Reloading any of the dictionaries wipes out all the "custom words" and I have to add them > all over again. The purpose of back-ups is to save this extra work. So the question is still, how > do I back up the standard dictionary so I can save my "custom" entries? If it is not possible, then > it really should be added as a possibility. Well, then it is the usual case of confusing to completely unrelated topics, which are: - dictionaries pre-installed and/or downloadable and - the user-dictionaries which can be editetd by the user via the UI The 'standard' dictionary is one of the latter and thus what I have said does not apply to it! User dictionaries (the writable ones!) are locate in the user-layer of the installation in the user/wordbook sub-directory. You can make backups of those by simply copying them. Thomas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
