standard.dic on dropbox

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#1

Is there any way to specify a new location for the standard.dic file?

I would like to move the standard.dic file to my dropbox folder so that all
my custom dictionary additions will be synced for all my different
installations of LibreOffice.

#2

Hi :slight_smile:
Can you do that with

Tools - Options - Paths

I think you can set it as a networked 'drive' (file-share).  I don't know about drop-box though or any of the Cloud ideas. 
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#3

I do not know about how LO uses the "standard.dic" file.
There is no current path listed for that file.

3.4.5 just asks if you would like to add the word to the "standard.dic" file, but does not show its path anywhere.

So if your computer shows this option, then you will have to look for [file navigator's search function] that file.

Each version of Windows seems to have these type of things in different places, and well as Linux and Mac.

#4

Hi :slight_smile:
Can you do that with

Tools - Options - Paths

I think you can set it as a networked 'drive' (file-share). I don't know about drop-box though or any of the Cloud ideas. Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

Dropbox places a shared folder on your computer, in Linux its at /home/"user"/Dropbox

#5

Hi :slight_smile:
It's not quite as random as that.  I know it probably seems it.  The Gnu&Linux distros (and i think BSD too) tend to all use the same paths as each other with the single exception of openSUSE.  All Windows that are pre-Vista use 1 path so it's only Win7 and Vista that use the new path.  Mac stays the same.  So that is only 5 different paths across all platforms.

From the User Profile page

http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/UserProfile

  For Windows users:
Before Vista: C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\Application Data\LibreOffice\3\user\
From Vista:   C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\LibreOffice\3\user

  For Gnu&Linux users:
For almost all distros

/home/<user name>/.libreoffice/3/user

There is always one that wants to be different for almost any 'rule'. This time with openSUSE apparently

/home/<user name>/.lo3/

Although openSUSE users have not yet confirmed that. For OpenOffice it was /home/<user name>/.ooo3/
NB: the openSUSE way allows the installation of downloaded versions alongside the openSUSE version of LibreOffice. More about openSUSE version of Libreoffice.

  For Mac users:
/Users/<user name>/Library/Application Support/LibreOffice/3/user

I seem to remember that LibreOffice 3.5.0 started using a slightly different path but i haven't checked up on that just yet.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#6

I'm using Mac OS and there is no Tools - Options - Path. I have a Paths
"folder" under preferences but I can't find anything related to the
dictionary.
Best
Benoît

#7

Hi :slight_smile:
In Mac the equivalent is

LibreOffice - Preferences

according to the quick little diagram at the front of every chapter of all the official documentation guides. 
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#8

That's were I looked but I can't find a Path related to the dictionary.
Best
Benoît

#9

Hi :slight_smile:
Sorry i just got back as far as Tim's post below. I am really tempted to
put the entire UserProfile on the network so that all the settings and
everything are all in a place that is easy to reach. I am not sure if the
various different Winodows users that all use the same login would be able
to cope with that tho! I'm not even convinced it would work in Gnu&Linux
tbh.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

krackedpress wrote

#10

I found the standard.dic is in wordbook under home/"user"/.config/libreoffice/3/user/wordbook The path is for Linux but I think the Mac uses a similar path. Note the .config folder is hidden.

You might try using a symbolic link to the file from the your dropbox folder in Terminal. I do not know if you use the GUI to do this with a Mac.

I am not sure of exact Mac syntax but I suspect it is something like ln -s path-to-file link-name. You would set up the link in the dropbox folder.

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#11

Benoît Majerus <benoit.majerus <at> gmail.com> writes:

Is there any way to specify a new location for the standard.dic file?

I would like to move the standard.dic file to my dropbox folder so that all
my custom dictionary additions will be synced for all my different
installations of LibreOffice.

I have successfully established a new location for *new* dictionaries by
adding a new Path in LO, but I haven't yet figured out how to direct
LibreOffice to use an *existing* dictionary instead of creating a new one. I
have years' worth of dictionary entries for some LibreOffice files I've
recently moved to Google Drive. All was well so long as I was editing on the
same computer where I created the files. But I'm breaking in a new laptop,
and it looks like it's impossible to move my dictionary file to this new
installation of LibreOffice. THAT is a daunting thought, if true.

Any more wisdom on this issue?

Thanks,
Laurie Pitman
Berkeley