Dictionary Fix extension

[Rod Whiteley]

The Dictionary Fix extension fixes some common problems with spelling dictionaries in Thunderbird 2:<blockquote>Dictionary Fix</blockquote>It can restore dictionaries that disappear after an upgrade, and it can install new dictionaries from a variety of sources, even if they are not packaged for Firefox/Thunderbird 2.

Dictionary Fix is intended to be used temporarily—once your spelling dictionaries are working, you can uninstall it.

[JimmyMack]

The Dictionary Fix extension fixes some common problems with spelling dictionaries in Thunderbird 2:<blockquote>Dictionary Fix</blockquote>It can restore dictionaries that disappear after an upgrade, and it can install new dictionaries from a variety of sources, even if they are not packaged for Firefox/Thunderbird 2.

Dictionary Fix is intended to be used temporarily—once your spelling dictionaries are working, you can uninstall it.

I updated both TB and Firefox, and this dictionary fix ain't working with the new Firefox!!

What to do?

TIA.

JimmyMack

[Rod Whiteley]

The extension is not designed to work in Firefox. See the knowledge base: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Dictionaries#Troubleshooting

[mrmandala]

Thanks for this fix, bugged me briefly but the powers of Google lead me to your fix. Cheers

[andypep]

Dictionary access to thunderbird failing.

PCLinuxOS 2007, Thunderbird 2.0.0.6

Installed dictionaries from mozilla site locally (en-GB and eo) => no sign in thunderbird

Installed as root => still no sign

Installed dictfix as root. It found a problem, said it had fixed it => dicts appear now in user profile in TB

But when switching to the other dict, all words marked as misspelled.

Uninstall dictfix as root, and re-install it => no problems found.

Where should I try next?

[Rod Whiteley]

Perhaps permissions are wrong for the installed .dic and .aff files. Does root have the same problem?

[andypep]

Spot on, Rod. Installing under root has left them read by root, but no one else.

chmod +x fixed it.

Thanks.

Andy

[insaner]

hi, im getting an "internal error, code: 6F".. i still dont have neither dictionaries nor dictionary fix working.. (i dont think ive ever had dictionaries working in thunderbird, no matter what version) current version of tb: 2.0.0.6, fedora core 4...

...help?

[insaner]

ahhh!!! ok.. i figured it out.. seems like some of the paths mentioned all over the mozilla help are wrong! geeeze.. so this is where to place the dictionary files:
/usr/lib/thunderbird-2.0.0.6/dictionaries

NOT:
/usr/lib/thunderbird-2.0.0.6/components/myspell/

good grief, charlie brown!

[BigGeoff]

I tried using Dictionary Fix and eventually it worked but the only way I could make it do so was to down load the dictionary as an xpi file and let Dictionary Fix install it for me, the usual methods don't seem to work. At last - spell checking!!

Geoff

[maximegrandchamp]

Hi,

I try to use the extension to install a dictionary using Tools / Install Dictionary but I get the following error message:

"Cannot copy file"

I'm on Linux with Thunderbird 2.0.0.6

Thanks for your suggestions.

Maxime

[mtz1of4]

Rod, I wanted to pass along a thanks.
Someone I was helping had issues with the latest update to TB an the dictionary while running Vista and he told me your add-on fixed his problem.

Thanks for your work.

[Ken Saunders]

Awesome! Thank you, thank you, and thank you some more.