I’ve asked about this previously. But while going thought old threads trying to figure it out, I decided I was better off asking from scratch.
I need to bulk add a large number of words to my Scrivener dictionary, which I find is missing a similarly large number of words that it or a previous version of it definitely contained, as they were all initially “Learned” by Scrivener on first use while I was working on a project where those same words now come up with red squiggly lines under them. Not sure why. Anyway…
I see that when I add words to the dictionary normally from inside Scrivener, the wordlists.txt file gets updated immediately.
I looked for previous versions of wordlists.txt and none were useful. I also found a wordlists.ini in the same folder with wordlists.txt. It contains many of the words I need. I tried adding a section of words as per similar method described in this thread ( Importing spelling modifications from 1 to 3 - #3 by MimeticMouton ) but the words were still not recognized.
Next: I have a pure text file with the words to be added, one word per line. I formatted it to the same word-comma-space format as in wordlists.txt. I made sure to copy this as plain text to the wordlists.txt file that Scrivener uses. As with the above copy attempt, I did all that after exiting Scrivener.
This too did not work.
I can see the words are in the wordlists.txt file that scrivener is using. When I copied the second batch they were alphabetized, and they no longer see to be. Is that a factor?
What am I missing?
What’s the easiest most direct way to get those words recognized by existing Scrivener projects?