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Authored by: paulio on Aug 12, '04 10:13:45PM

This is all way too complicated. There is a better answer.

The better way is to remove the accidently learned word the way Apple intended. There is a mechanism for doing this already in place.

In Mail, for example, pull down Edit | Spelling | Spelling... Among the fields available, there is one field in which it is possible to type a word. Type in the accidently learned word and click on the Forget button.

That's all. Easy.



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Authored by: mudpup on Aug 12, '04 11:06:42PM


Where is the fun in that?



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Authored by: osxpounder on Aug 13, '04 11:32:53AM

Fantastic. Thanks for pointing that out; I'd rather do it that way, myself.

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Authored by: subscriber3 on Aug 13, '04 12:02:23PM

this is good for removing a single word you know is misspelled.

but it doesn't allow you to look for misspelled words.



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Authored by: d_h on Aug 14, '04 02:07:57AM

Another reason for not editing the spelling dictionaries directly is that you seem to have to log out to get the changes recognised.

A while ago I was looking at loading a custom word list in all at once, the trouble was the delimiter was a character the machine couldn't show and I couldn't type. In the end I think I used a python script to find out the ascii value of the character and write it in with a script.



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