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Originally Posted by mrmikel

The preferences button open the path I listed previously just fine. No troubles there. I wrote a small text file there no troubles.

The path you gave before couldn't have been exactly the same as what you get when pressing the button. To avoid confusion (at least on my part) - can you click the "Open Preferences Location" button on the lower left of the Preferences window and list the full path you see.

As kiwidude said, perhaps paths are the cause of your problem, but maybe the test below will at least shed some light on whether a simple add works.

Open dictionary directory opens to Favorites, not to actually dictionary location. Can navigate there, but shows no files when I click on dictionary directory.

Odd. Open Dictionary Directory should open in the hunspell_dictionaries directory in your preferences directory. We'll re-check that as the code to open those two directories is slightly different and maybe not working as expected at least for you (but does seem to work for others).

I did add a test_word. It showed up in the user dictionary, but all my previous words are gone now...BAH HUMBUG. But it is not listed in the preferences dialog!

Confused. So your new word shows up in Sigil's user dictionary but not in preferences?

Lets restart, step by step. We're missing something basic here that just isn't clear without being able to see it... You can PM if you want, but someone else might catch what's happening:


Close all Sigils, Notepads, etc.
Use Notepad++ to open "Users/Mike/AppData/Local/sigil-ebook/sigil/user_dictionaries/default" so you can remember its current contents. Close the file.
Start Sigil
Go to Preferences->Spellcheck Dictionaries
Click on Add on the far right (just above the Edit button)
Type a word, hit Return.
-> Did the word get added?
Close Preferences.
Open Preferences
-> Is the word still there?
Use Notepad++ to open "Users/Mike/AppData/Local/sigil-ebook/sigil/user_dictionaries/default" -> is the word still there? Close the file.
Stop Sigil
Restart Sigil
Use Notepad++ to open "Users/Mike/AppData/Local/sigil-ebook/sigil/user_dictionaries/default" -> is the word still there? Close the file.
Go to Preferences->Spellcheck Dictionaries
Is the word still there?

Repeat with a second word.

I feel like Charlie Brown and Lucy with the football. (I don't know whether that means a thing to someone who lives in the UK!)