Spell Check - cannot add new word to dictionary

[Ainsley Haslett]

Im spell checking my ea model and when a word comes up that is relevant to my industry I would like to add it to the dictionary - but this fails with the following message

"Can't add work to user dictionary. File may be read only or disk may be full"

The current project is a SQL based EA model. I've had the exact same problem with the .eap file approach.

How can I overcome this as I need to add our local tech terms to the model so we don't have to have them appear as errors every time?

[Paolo F Cantoni]

Hi Ainsley,

This happened to me recently.  EA uses the Wintertree spelling engine and somehow (probably moving the exiting dictionary between machines) I managed to stuff up the access to the dictionary files.

Make sure you have write access to the .tlx files in your .AppData paths.

HTH,
Paolo

[Aaron B]

Hi Ainsley,
What Operating System and EA version are you using?  Dictionaries used to be stored under the install directory (Program Files), which users under Windows Vista / 7 don't have write access to by default.  EA 8.0 now stores custom dictionaries under the user profile (AppData) area instead, which you should have write access to.

[Ainsley Haslett]

Hi there. THanks to the both of you. I have windows XP and we have a relatively highly locked down environment here at work e.g. I can't view Program Files so I guess that's the problem. I'm having a tech here look into your suggestion.

Thanks again, will post how I get on!