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Kevin,
I did what you suggested and had Sigil and a file manager open side-by-side when editing a book.
I noted something odd. I had created a temporary dictionary for the last book I was working on so that I could eliminate words specific to that book -mostly people's names.
I had not removed that following completion of the book, so it was presumably still active.
I have just right-clicked on a word in the current book, and then clicked on Add To Default Dictionary. Whilst doing that I was keeping an eye on the files in the user_dictionaries folder and I was surprised to see that the file for the temporary dictionary was immediately updated rather than the default (as I had selected).
I then went into preferences and removed the temporary dictionary. On returning to the code view pane the word that I had just added was once again underlined indicating it was misspelled.
I repeated the right-click add to default and this time the default file was updated.
The reason why my default file was four days old was, presumably, because all the words that I had supposedly been adding to the default dictionary were in fact being added to the temporary dictionary that I had created for the book I was editing at the time.
What that probably means is that having now removed that temporary dictionary all the words that I thought I was adding to the default are now lost.
Surely it should not work like this.
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