Consider the following workflow:
1. Open TextEdit.
2. Type a word that's not in the dictionary.
3. Right-click on that word and select 'Learn Spelling'.
4. Observe the squiggly underline disappears, as the word is now recognised.
5. Observe the word is added to the
~/Spelling/LocalDictionary
file.
6. Quit TextEdit.
7. Remove the word from the ~/Spelling/LocalDictionary
file.
8. Reopen TextEdit.
9. Type the same word again.
10. Observe it is *still* recognised (not squiggly-underlined), despite no longer being in the local dictionary.
It seems the problem here is that there is some sort of cache maintained by macOS that is not refreshed. If I right-click on the word in TextEdit to remove it from the local dictionary instead of editing the file, it is indeed no longer recognised; i.e., this appears to update the cache.
Is there any way I can manually refresh the cache of local dictionary words?
Asked by Noldorin
(1019 rep)
Feb 1, 2021, 05:43 PM
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