10.4: Merge modified dictionaries from two different Macs

Aug 09, '07 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: gdurr

As with many users, I use both a laptop and a desktop Mac. On both systems, I use the check spelling feature, and often add words to the dictionaries. The problem is that the two dictionaries are different on both Macs. Here is a shell script [Original source | macosxhints mirror] to synchronize these spelling files using a web site. Each time the script is launched, the remote spelling file is dowloded, synchronised with the local spelling file, then sent to the the remote web site.

Open the script using TextWrangler or your favorite text editor, and fill in the Configure section:

The script can be used with a crontab file to automate the synch process.

[robg adds: I haven't tested this one.]

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