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TreeHugger
Jul 5, 2004, 03:01 PM
A few minutes ago, I accidentally told the spellchecker (in mail) to learn a mispelled word. Is there a way to undo this?
Help would be much appreciated!


wrldwzrd89
Jul 5, 2004, 03:17 PM
A few minutes ago, I accidentally told the spellchecker (in mail) to learn a mispelled word. Is there a way to undo this?
Help would be much appreciated!
Look in ~/Library/Spelling. There should be a file called 'en' - open it in TextEdit and remove the offending word, saving the file when done.
King Cobra
Jul 5, 2004, 03:19 PM
delete
TreeHugger
Jul 5, 2004, 03:23 PM
When I open the file in TextEdit, it's empty :(
wrldwzrd89
Jul 5, 2004, 03:26 PM
When I open the file in TextEdit, it's empty :(
Quit Mail and any other applications that use the Mac OS X spelling service (make sure TextEdit has no other documents open) first. They probably don't write to the file until they quit - that's why you have an empty file.