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Old 09-30-2020, 04:37 PM   #838
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Originally Posted by jackie_w View Post
Do you have firmware 4.24.15676 installed? If so, dictionary stuff has changed quite a lot in preparation for the new Kobo dictionaries due to be released tomorrow Oct 1st.

You might like to consider this approach:
  • Connect Kobo to PC via USB
  • Move all your custom dictionaries out of subdirectory .kobo/dict and into subdirectory .kobo/custom-dict
  • Rename your custom Chambers dictionary to dicthtml-Chambers.zip
    Rename your custom Websters dictionary to dicthtml-Websters.zip
  • Safely disconnect Kobo and reboot. The reboot is important.
After the reboot you'll have 2 new entries in the dictionary drop-down:
- dicthtml-Chambers.zip
- dicthtml-Websters.zip
and you'll never need to worry again about your custom dictionaries being overwritten during a sync.
Thank you very much for the method. It worked well, except for one of my 22 dictionaries, the Longman, whose name reads as 3 white squares (for unknown characters I suppose), followed by (Custom). I have no idea why.
And I did reboot.
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