[NBLUG/talk] Autospell check in ubuntu.. maybe other linuxs

Steve Johnson srj at adnd.com
Tue Oct 14 09:01:31 PDT 2008


So just to simplify it, and since I didn't care about any other entries in
the dictionary I just did this..

find ~/.mozilla -name "persdict.dat" -exec rm {} \;

Problem solved, and thanks again for the tip..  :)

-Steve


On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Steve Johnson <srj at adnd.com> wrote:

> Thanks, I will try this when I get to work tomorrow.
>
> And for the record, I am a CLI guy :) quite comfy in that world.
>
> -Steve
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:29 PM, William Tracy <afishionado at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> This is a Firefox thing. I don't know why Firefox don't give you an
>> easy interface for undoing this, but I found how to do it manually.
>>
>> This is probably easier to do via the command line, but since I don't
>> know how comfortable you are with Linux, I'm going to try to walk you
>> through using the GUI.
>>
>> First, close Firefox. Open your home folder (Places -> Home). Make
>> hidden files visible (View -> Show Hidden Files).
>>
>> Open the .mozilla folder, then the firefox folder inside of that.
>> Inside that folder should be your user profile--it will be a folder
>> named something random ending with ".default". Open that.
>>
>> In here, there should be a file named persdict.dat. If you want to
>> preserve your existing custom dictionary entries, you could edit this
>> file. Otherwise, just delete it. :-)
>>
>> Start Firefox again (and maybe turn "show hidden files" back off) and
>> you should be good to go.
>>
>> Incidentally, if you ever really screw up Firefox, you can just delete
>> your entire profile folder to reset your settings. This will delete
>> all your bookmarks, though, so be careful.
>>
>> --
>> William Tracy
>> afishionado at gmail.com -- wtracy at calpoly.edu
>> Vice President, Cal Poly Linux Users' Group
>> http://www.cplug.org
>>
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