Spell Checker Plugin issue with v6.8.1 - Missing GNU Aspell and/or dictionaries

Violetta Buono

Hello there, @guy038

Thank you a thousand times for your thorough reply, and thank you for taking the time to explain each step as if I were 5 (I’m not that proficient at fixing things, so it really was a great help).

I just followed all the steps exactly as you described it and got exactly what I was looking for, I’m so pleased!

Thank you again, and hope this can be useful for others with the same issue too.

Cheers, have a great weekend :)

guy038

Hi Violetta,

If you still want to install GNU Aspell and its dictionaries, just have a look to the method below :

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/8206/method-to-install-gnu-aspell-win32-dictionaries-and-spell-check-plugin-on-n/1

Indeed, you can have the two orthographic correctors ( DSpellCheck and Spell-Checker ) both installed in a same N++ configuration :-)

Cheers,

guy038

Tim Saunders

Awesome! Manually installing Dspellcheck 1.2.14.2 and redirecting the dictionary directory to GNU Aspell did the trick in Windows 10 for me. Thank You. Thank You.

Timothy Bushra

thanks so much for this! I linked up my google+ to this site just to say thanks because this was very helpful! without this, I’d still be using Word 2013 for my spellchecking, and Notepad++ is just a lot more convenient. thanks again!

Mark Bremmeyr

@guy038 Thank you.

DelphiPro Thompson

Thanks a million for this article and instructions on how to correct the problem. My confusion was that I thought “Spellckecker.dll” and “DSpellcheck.dll” were the same thing. They’re not. Now I have integrated spell checking that points to GNU Aspell.dll. It fixes another problem. The old spell checker was flagging words like “color”, wanting them to be spelled “colour”, etc. Now that’s fixed. Great job!

Rozz A McGee

that DSpellCheck dll is really neat, i could not get ASpell working for the life of me - but this worked a charm.

Jeremy Crockett

@guy038

Another huge “Thank You!” from a grateful user. I could not get the GNU Aspell running (probably due to my own incompetence) last time I installed NotePad++. Your particular set of instructions was clear and concise and addressed my spell check problem perfectly.

Thank you again for contributing!

Andova Begarin

Probly should be a new thred this… as trying to install DSpellCheck now results in not being able to connect to it’s hosted website, github.com/Predelnik/DSpellCheck/releases/download/1.2.14.2/DSpe and the dialog cuts it off at that point… (So the link that is automatically created here is invalid.) (I post this here as the thred already exists.)

So, DSpellCheck fails to install.

I liked this plugin and never had issues with it.

Andova Begarin

“DSpellCheck” won’t install for me (PluginManager timesout trying to download it), but the other spellchecker, “Spell-Checker” v1.3.3, keeps asking for “relative path to Aspell”, which is “…\Aspell\bin” but snooping with the Procmon program, it’s searching “…\Aspell\data” instead, which is, of course, wrong. I am stumped at this point.

guy038

Hello, Andova Begarin,

A) Concerning the DSpellCheck plugin :

The correct link to download the last DSpellCheck plugin, v.1.2.14.2, is :

https://github.com/Predelnik/DSpellCheck/releases/download/1.2.14.2/DSpellCheck.zip

and NOT the link, of your previous post : https://github.com/Predelnik/DSpellCheck/releases/download/1.2.14.2/DSpe

B) Concerning the Spell-Checker plugin :

On my Win XP machine, I’ve got a local installation of N++, in the directory C:\Program Files\Notepad++, where I installed the Spell-Checker plugin

The SpellChecker.ini file is located in the directory C:\Program Files\Notepad++\Plugins\Config and contains one section, below :

[Spell-Checker]
Current Language=fr
Relative Path=..\Aspell\bin

As my GNU Aspell program is located in the directory C:\Program Files\Aspell

So the way to access to the Aspell\bin folder from the Notepad++ folder, ( which contains Notepad++.exe ), is, exactly :

..\Aspell\bin, as the syntax .., in DOS, means : Move to the parent folder of the current folder. Quite logical !

Hope that this example put you, on the right direction, anyway !

Best Regards

guy038

Cecilia Dalzell

Go raibh maith agat, a guy038! Thank you so much, guy038! Notepad++ has been one of my go-to places to type in Irish (Gaeilge)text without the craziness you get in Microsoft when attempting a bilingual document. I could find nothing about how to reactivate the spellchecker and keyboard in Notepad++'s help, and it was definitely there before my computer was reimaged. Your instructions are most helpful. For the record, I have it working in English and Irish on Notepad++ 7.2.2 64 bit, windows 7 64 bit.