prentice1024

I want the two machines to be consistent. If I copy the files from the .exe installation and delete the .exe stuff, could I then copy the files form .exe to .msix ? Would it work properly then?

It's really odd. While an affinity guru would know, a new user such as myself would have no way to know that the exe and msix versions follow different paths. I just accepted the defaults. Not very user friendly. Somebody at Serif/affinity should make this clear to new users!

Ahhh! The version that the program seems to be using must be from the exe installer. The dictionary is in users\<myname>\ appdata\roaming\affinity\common\2.0\user\dictionary.propcol. Why did some programmer make this different in the exe and msix installers? I never would have found it if you hadn't guided me. Thanks.

As I realized in my last response above, I downloaded the program twice, both times from the affinity site. I investigated and found that my list of programs in the start menu has two entries for Affinity Publisher 2. Both open up to version 2.3.1, but the arrangement of the tools on the "studio" panels are different when I click the top icon on the start menu vs. when I click the second icon. Somehow the program has acquired a dual personality. If I uninstall both versions and reinstall the msix version, will I lose all my settings and spellings?

I downloaded both from the affinity site. It's been a couple of weeks but think that the first one, which I installed on my desktop PC, was originally in the msix format. I was trying it and after a few days an update came out. I downloaded the update from the affinity site by clicking on the "update" link but when I installed it it still showed version 2.3.0. I redownloaded the update to 2.3.1 from the affinity site to my desktop, but this time in the exe format. The upgrade to 2.3.1 worked correctly. After a few days or so, I decided to buy. When I downloaded the file to my laptop it was in msix format. Everything seems the same except that I can't find any updated "learned spelling" file on the desktop that was installed using the exe format.

Document is closed before I copy dictionary.propcol.

Still not working. When I "learn" spelling of a word on my Windows 11 laptop, Windows file manager shows that the dictionary.propcol file in the users folder has updated to the time and date when the action took place. When I "learn" a word on my Windows 10 desktop computer (where I do most of my editing), the changes take place in affinity publisher. The words are no longer highlighted, but the Windows file manager continues to show the date and time on dictionary.propcol as 1/8/2024, the date of installation. When I copy that file over to the users folder on the laptop, the changes do not move with it and I still have hundreds of words highlighted as misspelled. Is there another location for dictionary.propcol on the desktop? I used file manager but could not find another one. In short, I still cannot migrate my spalling updates from the desktop to the laptop.

Not sure why I am having so much trouble. Will go back to dictionary.propcol and try again. Thanks.

One correction: I found out through trial and error that the "learned" spellings are not in dictionary.propcol but instead in autocorrect.propcol.

Multiple documents.

I need them learned. Hundreds of technical scientific terms (Yangchuanosaurus, Psittacosaurus, etc.). Thanks. I think I found it. It looks like I can copy C:\Users\<username>\.affinity\Common\2.0\user\dictionary.propcol then paste it to the other machine and it should have the learned words. Does that sound right? (Running Windows 10 on desktop, 11 on laptop) Thanks!

I think I found it. It looks like I can copy C:\Users\<username>\.affinity\Common\2.0\user\dictionary.propcol then paste it to the other machine and it should have the learned words. Does that sound right? (Running Windows 10 on desktop, 11 on laptop) Thanks!

I just bought affinity publisher. I am using it on my desktop and laptop. I have done "learn spelling" to add hundreds of technical words to my desktop. Is there a file I can copy to get all the learned words to my laptop?