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On Mon, 6 Aug 2007 19:36:58 +1000, Rom wrote:

> On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 02:25:15 GMT, Steve Wertz wrote:
>
>> Ever since I copied over my dialog installation from another
>> disk, my custom dictionaries aren't working. I fdo not have the
>> ability to add new words, and it appear to be consulting what
>> used to exist in the custom dictionaries - all custom words are
>> still marked as invalid.
>>
>> Here is my ./dict directory:
>>
>> 08/13/2004 10:49 AM 301,870
>> 08/05/2007 09:05 PM 532
>> 04/01/2007 12:00 PM 3,659
>> 04/10/2007 12:02 AM 39,213
>>
>> All these files are owned and writable by myself. " "
>> is selected in the spell check options as my custom dictionary.
>>
>> My dicts/ looks like:
> [...]
>> Does anybody wee anything particularly wrong with any of these
>> settings or files (missing?), or have any suggestions?
>
> Sounds like Read-only but doesn't grey out "Add" on the context menu.
>
> Open the composition window and go to "Spell check > Settings". Down
> the bottom of the "Spelling Options" window, if " " isn't
> displaying as the "Custom Dictionary", select it from the drop-down
> list or click the "Dictionaries" button and put a check next to
> " " to use that custom dictionary.

I can write and save the file just fine with a text editor
(making a copy of it first, and then replacing it). And
is my custom dictionary in the Spelling Options dialog
box.

-sw