EmmettO

I am NOT using an iCloud linked folder. Period. It is, as I've stated, a local folder under my username and I have confirmed the path is local. I do not use iCloud, I'm old school and don't like it. How old school am I? I've been rocking Macs since the Mac Plus with a ten megabyte hard drive. I've been publishing books made on Macs to the internet since 1999. Wouldn't the saved words still be a dictionary, even if saved in the document? If I create a list of words or even values, it's called a dictionary in a number of programming languages. But that's just semantics in the end. Storing the ignored words in the file and the linked resources resetting seems to point to a common point of failure, but that's just speculation on my part. I wouldn't be surprised if both arrays (if we don't want to call them dictionaries) are stored in the same data structure. Again, just speculation though.

To be more clear about the specific bug I'm experiencing. Resource manager says images have been modified suddenly, all at once, this coincides with an "ignore" dictionary loss. The images are NOT on a cloud folder, NOR one linked to the cloud. The image modification timestamps in the finder DO NOT indicate they have been modified or touched (in the Unix sense) in any way. I am the only person working on the document.

I think you're missing the whole idea here. I know you're trying, but this is a bug forum. Workarounds don't make for a better product. I'd like a product that works. I know how to spellcheck. Don't be patronizing. The images have not been modified and I said in the original post they are in a drive local to the Publisher file. If you're going to make suggestions, please pay attention.

It's possible this does show up in Apple software, but I wrote this document in pages and transferred it (painfully) to Publisher. The words remain ignored in the original document. Now the original document doesn't have all the pictures, so there's a difference. The other issue, and the more troubling one, is resource manager saying all the images have been modified. Since there isn't a similar feature in pages to linking an image (that I know of) are you saying this is a related issue? If so, how? You've supplied your experience, and that's appreciated, but it doesn't seem to match the problem I'm having. Addendum for clarity. The ignored spellings and the images being labeled as modified occur at the same time.

I'm working on a document in Publisher 2.3.1 that has a good number of unique words in it. There are also a lot of pictures 150 mb worth approx. The total document is 260 pages. As the document got bigger, the spell check would forget the "ignore" on some of the words. I started to ignore the spell checker. Now that the document is put together and I'm editing, periodically it would forget all the ignored words. I just stopped worrying about it. Now, every so often, preflight will mark EVERY image in the document as modified. I have to go through every single one in the resource manager and update them. None of the files are being modified. They images are all in two folders local to the document.