fotis575 Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 How do I keep a copy of spelled syllables? Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 Can you give us an example of what you mean? Spelling generally affects words, not syllables, so I'm not sure exactly what you're doing. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.1.2, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.1.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotis575 Posted February 14 Author Share Posted February 14 when I place a word in the document, I save the spelling. How can I have a copy of all these words? (google translate) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 Thanks for that clarification. The answer may depend on whether you use macOS or Windows. On Windows, the words that you Learn are saved in a binary file named dictionary.propcol, which has an undocumented format and which we do not know how to read. So you cannot recover a copy of those words. On Mac it may be different, as spellchecking is more integrated with the system's functions. I do not know enough details, but I do not think you can recover the words there, either. Someone who uses a Mac may know more. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.1.2, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.1.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeTO Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 14 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: On Mac it may be different, as spellchecking is more integrated with the system's functions. I do not know enough details, but I do not think you can recover the words there, either. Someone who uses a Mac may know more. @fotis575 On macOS the learned words are saved to a spelling dictionary in /Users/username/Library/Spelling/. Just look for the most recently updated file in that folder because its name will depend on the language. Mine is en_CA for English Canada. It's a plain text file so you can review it but be careful editing it directly. Editing it and failing to alpha sort it properly will result in issues and editing it while other programs are accessing it can produce issues. I have edited mine during testing but I always do it without any other programs running and after saving I immediately reboot. You don't need to edit this file to remove learned words. If you accidentally added "michael" to the dictionary and regretted it, just right click "michael" in any document and choose Unlearn from the menu. Cheers walt.farrell 1 Quote Download a free PDF manual for Publisher 2.3 from this forum - now includes text formatting and styles Affinity 2.3.0 for macOS Sonoma 14.1.1, MacBook Pro 14" (M1 Pro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murfee Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 On my Mac the file is called LocalDictionary, this only contains words that I have added as learned words walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeTO Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 5 hours ago, Murfee said: On my Mac the file is called LocalDictionary, this only contains words that I have added as learned words LocalDictionary isn't used by Affinity - that's the file used by apps that don't use language-specific dictionaries. If you have System Settings (formerly System Preferences) > Spelling set to Automatic by Language then Apple's own apps like Mail and Notes will use LocalDictionary. If you change System Settings to a specific language then it will use a language-specific dictionary and not LocalDictionary. Affinity always ignores LocalDictionary and will use or create a file for the language you're using. For US English it will create a file named en. For English Canada it will be en_CA. For English UK it will be en_GB. This file will be shared by macOS apps if you change the system setting from automatic. Cheers Quote Download a free PDF manual for Publisher 2.3 from this forum - now includes text formatting and styles Affinity 2.3.0 for macOS Sonoma 14.1.1, MacBook Pro 14" (M1 Pro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murfee Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 15 minutes ago, MikeTO said: LocalDictionary isn't used by Affinity Then why do all words that I ask Affinity to learn end up in that file? I haven’t changed any language settings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 11 minutes ago, Murfee said: I haven’t changed any language settings What language have you told the Affinity application to use, both in Preferences (General) and in the Character panel (Language, Spelling) or in the Text Style? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.1.2, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.1.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murfee Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 Just now, walt.farrell said: What language have you told the Affinity application to use, both in Preferences (General) and in the Character panel (Language, Spelling) or in the Text Style? I have never needed to change any, I am on British English Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 1 minute ago, Murfee said: I have never needed to change any, I am on British English But what are the settings? Do they say En-GB, or do they say System or Default or something like that? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.1.2, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.1.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murfee Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 1 minute ago, walt.farrell said: But what are the settings? Do they say En-GB, or do they say System or Default or something like that? I am not near my Mac so can’t check Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotis575 Posted February 15 Author Share Posted February 15 thank you all for the info. My Computer has windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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