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    • ChelOisC
      ChelOis
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      Hi, I would like to know the location of the my personal user dictionary when using DSpellCheck with Windows Native Library. Thank!!!

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      • WinterSilenceW
        WinterSilence @ChelOis
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        @chelois C:\Users\...\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\plugins\

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        • PeterJonesP
          PeterJones @WinterSilence
          last edited by PeterJones

          @wintersilence ,

          C:\Users\...\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\plugins\

          Are you sure? Please don’t answer authoritatively if you are just guessing.

          I just spun up a fresh Notepad++ with DSpellCheck, set it to use the “Windows Native” library, and added a custom word to the dictionary. DSpellCheck did not create or update any files in the ...\plugins\Config or ...\plugins\Config\DSpellCheck folders.

          I just did an internet search for “where does the windows native spell checker put custom dictionary”, and the first hit tells me it goes in %appdata%\Microsoft\Spelling. When I paste that windows path into my Windows Explorer, I see a folder with subfolders named like en-US and similar. I looked in the en-US and found default.dic and other files; looking in default.dic, I found the word that I added to the custom dictionary.

          So the correct answer to @ChelOis’s question is: when you are using the DSpellCheck with Windows Native library selected, the words added to the user dictionary go in %appdata%\Microsoft\Spelling\<language-id>\default.dic

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          • ChelOisC
            ChelOis @WinterSilence
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            @wintersilence said in User Dictionary location with DSpellCheck Windows Native Lib:

            @chelois C:\Users\...\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\plugins\

            Hi, thanks a lot for your time, but I’m afraid that folder contains no archive, and the only subfolder, named “config”, only contains configuration files but not my dictionary.

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            • ChelOisC
              ChelOis @PeterJones
              last edited by

              @peterjones Thanks a lot for your answer!!! I also searched Internet before posting my question here but with no luck, possibly because I searched using Spanish words, my native language. Thanks again!!!

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              • Bob SteinB
                Bob Stein @ChelOis
                last edited by Bob Stein

                @ChelOis I found it in %appdata%\Notepad++\plugins\config\Hunspell\en_US.usr

                The first line of the file appears to be the number of words. But I didn’t edit that, so it may have fixed itself.

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