User dictionary gets overwritten on Windows with Publisher 2.3.0.2165 (Beta)

[BR22]

I'm using Publisher on Windows 11 Pro 23H2. When I copy an existing dictionary.propcol file created in Publisher 2.2.1 to %my home dir%\.affinity\Common\2.0 (Beta)\, and then launch the Beta version of Publisher and add a word to the user dictionary with "Learn Spelling", the dictionary file gets overwritten and then contains only the latest word added.

It would be great if you could add the option to make the user dictionary location a parameter we can set that would make the dictionary independent of release version.

[walt.farrell]

8 minutes ago, BR22 said:

%my home dir%\.affinity\Common\2.0 (Beta)\

That isn't where dictionary.propcol would go for the beta. It would be in the User directory below that one.

[BR22]

I left the 'user' off the end when I copied the path. My dictionary file is with all the other user propcol files.

I have verified that the 2.3.0 release also overwrites the dictionary.

[walt.farrell]

Thanks for that clarification.

How have you verified that it contains only one word? Please explain your test method a bit more. 

For example, are you sure that the text you're testing with has the same Language specified in the Character panel? Because the Learned words are specific to their language.

[BR22]

My old user dictionary is quite large. I know the new file only has one word by comparing the file size to that of an empty user dictionary and to my much larger old file size.

My old dictionary file was for Character->Language English (United States). I did change to using a custom Hunspell English dictionary, but that would probably only explain why words might be tagged as misspelled, but not the truncation of the dictionary file. If I highlight a word that was in my old dictionary and change the language back to en_US, it still flags it as misspelled.