Thanks for the information, Harold
I hear what you re saying - that the dictionaries and other configurational
data now upgrade themselves with the newer versions of OOo. I have been
using OOo since version 1.0 and in the good old days one had to back up and
manually update the dictionary.lst file and the folder it was in, otherwise
one went back to square one, losing all the new words one had previoulsy
added on the fly.
I have solved my problem. I carry OOo on my USB thumb drive in case any of
my customers want it. I also carry the Australian English dictionary files,
and I used these to upgrade my 2.4 version of OOo
I think what I did wrong was to copy over the whole Dict>OOo folder from 2.3
to 2.4, not realising that when installing version 2.4 this had already been
done. I therefore copied a folder which no longer contained a
dictionary.lst file, and that is why I lost all spell check functions.
Happily, I can report that I have an Australian English spell checker
working for me again.
Once again, many thanks,
James
----- Original Message -----
From: "Harold Fuchs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 5:59 PM
Subject: Re: [users] Lost my dictionary files with OOo 2.4 install.?
On 01/04/2008, James Elliott - WA Rural Computers
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I just installed OOo 2.4 and copied my dictionary files across from
version
2.3.1 so that I could:
1. continue to use my Australian English spellchecker;
2. retain all the Aussie words I have added to the Australian
Dictionary;
but now the spell checker will not check anything, not even obvious
mistakes, and when I go to Options>Languages there is no
English(Australian)
dictionary for the spellchecker to use, even though under Language
settings,
English(Australia) seems to have been copied across.
I went back to earlier versions, to copy the dictionary files across but
they seem to have been gutted - does OOo now delete previous version
files
when a new version is installed (good feature, by the way, to prevent
one's
HDD filling up with multiple copies of OOO)?
Anyone else having problems importing their old dictionary?
Kind regards, James.
Which Operating System are you on?
I use Win XP Pro. I use the US English download of OOo with UK English and
Danish dictionaries installed; my default language is set to UK English. I
recently upgraded from 2.3 to 2.4. Both dictionaries remained intact and
properly recognised by the new version. My default language remained set
at
UK English. I did not back up the dictionaries before the upgrade. As far
as
I can remember the same was true when I went from 2.2 to 2.3.
--
Harold Fuchs
London, England
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