Dictionaries

[Mike Wickham]

FrameMaker changed dictionary locations as of version 9. It now saves 
them at the common location of 
C:\Users\<user>\AppData\LocalLow\Adobe\Linguistics\Dictionaries\FMUserDictionary\all\added.txt. 
I'm using FM 10, so assume FM 11 is the same. There is no version 
structure showing on my computer. I don't believe FM 10 overwrote my FM9 
dictionary way back when, but can't remember. If FM 11 is doing it, it 
needs to be reported as a bug.

As a side note, even though the new dictionary is a .txt file, care is 
necessary if you try to edit it directly. I messed mine up one time, 
when I edited the file and the editor saved it with carriage return and 
linefeed (CR LF) line endings. This caused failure as FM expects this 
file to have LFs only! I was able to use Notepad++ to find the problem 
and fix it.

There was a need to convert dictionaries from FM8 to FM9 when the 
location/format change happened. Instructions for doing so are at the 
bottom of this page (as well as the warning about editing the file 
directly):
http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2009/12/dictionaries_in_fm9.html

Mike Wickham

On 10/22/2013 7:09 PM, Fred Ridder wrote:
> Every FrameMaker installer I have used (from 5.5.6 through 9 so far) 
> has always installed all the files in a separate, version-specific 
> folder within the Program Files folder. I have never had a problem 
> having two or even three different versions installed simultaneously 
> using the default installs.