[Users] Where does Claws store words added to spellchecker?

Paul claws at thewildbeast.co.uk
Fri Jun 19 14:25:44 CEST 2015


On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 14:06:48 +0200
wwp <subscript at free.fr> wrote: 

> Strange, all files in this directory here are empty. If I add a
> word to personal dictionary, I see those files growing, but I don't
> know what reset them and when. Too bad 'cause I'm adding words to
> personal dicts for years :-D (CentOS6, enchant 1.5.0).

They apparently moved to this location with release 1.4.2, May 2008:
"Use XDG's data-dirs spec for locating dictionaries (eg.
~/.config/enchant/myspell/)"

but I don't know what the previous location was. It sounds like
the transition wasn't carried out well, or perhaps not at all.

with regards

Paul



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