[Framers] Corrupt dictionary file/s?

[tammyvb at spectrumwritingllc.com]

Wow - that BAM! sound was me hitting the floor. . . yep, a voice from the
past, but much appreciated. Actually, I have another installation of FM12 on
a backup system and those dictionary files seem to be just fine. I might go
for it and copy and paste from that installation to this one. . . might as
well try it because if ultimately, my only option is
uninstall/reinstallzheimer's as Dov used to "lovingly" refer to such action,
couldn't make things worse.

Thanks!


Tammy Van Boening
Tammy dot vanboening at spectrumwritingllc dot com
www.spectrumwritingllc.com

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Subject: Re: [Framers] Corrupt dictionary file/s?

Hi Tammmy - voice from the past here :-)

>Does anyone know where the dictionary file/files live for FM12 and is 
>it possible to get a pristine copy of these files and replace the current
ones?
>I have absolutely NO idea how/what started this, but my dictionary 
>function in FM12 is shot to h*ll in a handbasket. It's FM12 so lord 
>knows there haven't been updates to it since the dawn of time, and I 
>haven't deactivated it and reinstalled since I set up this system (10 
>Win, 64 bit), which was well over 3.5 years ago. Words that are spelled 
>correctly are being flagged as incorrectly spelled and I can't add new 
>words, and then the suggested corrections are even wrong. For example, 
>the word "potential" is flagged in one of my files, and the 
>"correction" for it is "potentials" (yep, w/ an
>"s") and I can't even click Allow in Document to stop flagging "potential."

Klaus has written a helpful guide to FM dictionaries here:

<https://www.daube.ch/docu/files/FMdict-en.pdf>

which might help. There is a subfolder 'dict' in the FM file tree that (in
my FM 12 installation at least) contains the site dictionary. The remainder
of the language dictionaries seem to be in the subfolder 'AMT', although
these have a .zdct extension rather than a '.dct' extension.

It rather sounds as if a reinstall is your get-out here, but others may have
better ideas.

--
Steve
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