Dictionary Wizard broken

Spurred_On · Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 4:15 pm Post subject: Dictionary Wizard broken

Howdy — I installed OOo 2.1 on a Win XP Pro system today. However several dictionaries were not imported to 2.1 from a previous 2.04 installation on the same system, although all other options and settings were automatically imported to the new 2.1 installation without any problems. (Wicked cool!)

Rather than manually install the dictionaries, I opted to try the "Install new Dictionaries" wizard in 2.1, hoping to update to newer dictionaries in the process. All I was presented with was a new text document with a path as the only text. The path pointed to the file DicOOo-1.5.5.sxw in the old OOo 2.0 directory (which still existed, though with only a very few files left in it, mostly the old dictionaries).

In the corresponding new OpenOffice.org 2.1\share\dict\ooo folder, if I double-click on the file DicOOo.sxw the dictionary wizard opens in a new OOo page and woks just as it should, downloading new dictionaries and installing them to OOo (including updating the file dictionary.lst). I've searched the Registry and all hard drives for any files that reference DicOOo-1.5.5.sxw, but cannot find any, other than "recent documents" listings. How do I point OOo 2.1 to the correct location for DicOOo.sxw to make the wizard functional?

All other wizards work normally (if I have JAVA switched on).

Thanks — Tony

Hagar Delest · Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 12:51 am Post subject:

Yes, it's a real annoyance for the upgrade, see here : How to upgrade from 2.0.3 to 2.1, you can vote for the bug : http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=72559.

As you still have your old dics configuration folder, you can replace the new one by the old one (only the \share\dict\ooo folder).

See here for a workaround and detailed explanation for next upgrades : [Tuto] Spell check (§3).

Try to rename the OOo 2.0 former installation folder to see if the wizard detects the new installation folder. On my Linux installation, it works fine, last installation folder had been taken into account.
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Spurred_On · Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 7:03 am Post subject:

Howdy Hagar

Ahriman · Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 3:56 pm Post subject:

There are also a new DictOOo (version 1.6.2). Maybe upgrading it can be of help also.

Spurred_On · Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 9:04 pm Post subject:

Howdy Ahriman,

DictOOo version 1.6.2 seems to be what is installed with OOo 2.1. I downloaded
http://ftp.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/contrib/dictionaries/dicooo/DicOOo.sxw
but as far as I can tell, it looks to be the same file. It's a definite update from the version that came with OOo 2.0X, though.

Tony