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I added a lot of words to the standard Mac OS X system-wide dictionary on a given machine, and would like to transfer that specific list of words to another machine. Where / in what file(s) is that list of words stored?
avernet
Posted 2010-04-30T03:16:34.970
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Are you certain you really mean system-wide? If I add a custom spelling, in Snow, it seems to end up here:
~/Library/Spelling/LocalDictionary
The System-wide equivalent, which is empty on my Mac, would be here:
/Library/Spelling/
Aside from this, you will find packaged dictionaries here:
/Library/Dictionaries/
~/Library/Dictionaries/
username
Posted 2010-04-30T03:16:34.970
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For those attempting to find the Unix standard words file, it's at /usr/share/dict/words.
jameshfisher
Posted 2010-04-30T03:16:34.970
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3What's that list used for? Are those words already in the standard OSX dictionary? – incandescentman – 2015-12-06T07:33:43.403
2Lots of Unix utilities use it, since it's plain-text and easy to parse. – saagarjha – 2017-03-15T04:56:39.397
4This also work on mac! – Filype – 2017-03-31T00:02:35.700
2My computer shows a variant of this -- I have
~/Library/Spelling/en. This suggests that OS X will save dictionaries by ISO code for each language. – Doug Harris – 2010-04-30T14:01:48.800This answer no longer appears to be correct as os Mac OS Mojave 10.14 if not earlier. The local dictionary is in the same place, but /Library/Spelling and /Library/Dictionaries are gone AFAICT. – Carl – 2019-03-29T13:32:47.787
Seems to work for me. I copied everything under ~/Library/Spelling/. I had to logout/login again for the changes to be visible. – ebruchez – 2013-11-06T23:04:36.893