Losing dictionary

[Mein Papierkorb <me...@gmail.com>]

Hey there,

I have a little problem with a german Openoffice 4.1.1 on Windows 7 Home 
Premium.

The problem is that the german dictionary in Openoffice Writer gets 
empty automatically and as a result of this all words in the text are 
underlined in red color...

When this happend the first time, I tried a repair installation, that 
didn't solve the problem.
Then I tried to do a complete deinstallation - and new installation. But 
it didn't solve the problem.

Then I tried a complete deinstallation and I additionaly removed the 
.../AppData/Romaing/Openoffice folder.
After this the new installation solved the problem.

But now, 1 week later, the dictionary is empty again.


Can somebody please explain me why this happens and how to solve the 
problem?

Regards,
Markus

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Re: Losing dictionary

[Rory O'Farrell <of...@iol.ie>]

On Wed, 16 Sep 2015 13:56:26 +0200
Mein Papierkorb <me...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey there,
> 
> I have a little problem with a german Openoffice 4.1.1 on Windows 7 Home 
> Premium.
> 
> The problem is that the german dictionary in Openoffice Writer gets 
> empty automatically and as a result of this all words in the text are 
> underlined in red color...
> 
> When this happend the first time, I tried a repair installation, that 
> didn't solve the problem.
> Then I tried to do a complete deinstallation - and new installation. But 
> it didn't solve the problem.
> 
> Then I tried a complete deinstallation and I additionaly removed the 
> .../AppData/Romaing/Openoffice folder.
> After this the new installation solved the problem.
> 
> But now, 1 week later, the dictionary is empty again.
> 
> 
> Can somebody please explain me why this happens and how to solve the 
> problem?

All you need to is remove or rename the OpenOffice user profile.  (the .../AppData/Roaming/... etc method above). 

For unknown reasons, which seem to vary from User to User, Windows machines can give this problem from time to time. It may be caused by the user's method of work.  Because the OpenOffice files are archives, hence more complex than flat files, they take longer to write.  

On the en-Forum we recommend users to be leisurely in closing OpenOffice - close the file(s), gather your papers, then close OpenOffice itself and wait a short period (only a few seconds) to allow OpenOffice to write its configuration data back to disk before powering off the computer.  

Don't just save the file then shut the laptop lid or snap the power switch off immediately.  The few extra seconds taken doing this will be a lot less than the time taken to rebuild a damaged file or rectify a configuration error such as damaged spellcheck.  

-- 
Rory O'Farrell <of...@iol.ie>

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