Mac Sonoma 14.7.4, Scrivener for Mac 3.4
This is no longer showing spelling errors. When I ask it to check spelling, I get the dialogue box, but nothing there, nothing happens.
I’m not aware of anything I did to cause this. I have restarted twice and it still doesn’t work.
I also tried the suggestions from an earlier question.
I’ve never received an answer to this ask: why has spellcheck stopped working? How do I fix this?
Am I to understand that there is no way to fix this?
I’ve restarted the project many times; no improvement.
Any help?
Currently running Sonoma 14.7.4, Scrivener 3.4 (16639).
It is a little annoying. And it’s kind of been that way for a very long time. Early spellcheck in Scrivener 3 seemed to work fairly reliably. But not for the last few macOS versions.
There also has not been a fix. Quite often I’ll get the dotted red line under a word Scrivener doesn’t recognize. But spellcheck does absolutely nothing.
A workaround that I found is to not use the Scrivener spellcheck feature, but to go into the drop-down menu, which on my Mac I have set to respond to a two-finger tap on the trackpad.
Then select ‘look up’, and that appears to circumvent whatever Scrivener brain fart would otherwise be involved.
I was under the impression that Scrivener just invoked spellcheck directly in the macOS. But maybe not. Because if you do it this way, it will faithfully attempt to spellcheck the word, apparently directly in the macOS, circumventing Scrivener’s constant brain fart.
For whatever reason, fixing this doesn’t appear to be a priority. Either that or it’s simply just above them.
Scrivener has nothing to do with spell checking, and yes Apple has busted it up pretty bad in the past two updates. “Look up” is not the spell check engine. We’ve already done everything we can to make it as reliable as possible, by removing what little code we had in place that attempted to fix other bugs.
I haven’t heard of that happening before, specifically. But as noted above, the troubleshooting for this is not straightforward because Scrivener is merely hosting the tools you see, and the automation that is supposed to underline words, or add suggestions to the contextual menu. There isn’t a lot you can do to fix that in Scrivener, for the same reason we can’t do much to fix it.
Normally, for interface bugs, we’d suggest reinstalling the software. I suppose it wouldn’t hurt to try that, it might work.
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