Hi
I have a user who only started having this problem a week ago. Whenever spell check runs, it comes up with an error message ‘Error during main dictionary spell initialization’. The only solution so far is to turn spell check off and not use it.
This is my second post but I really hope someone has the solution to this problem. is it a bug in 6.5? I’ve tried all the solutions found on the forum but none worked. I’ve tried re-installing the *.dic files in the data folder, deleted the user.dic file, re-installed notes,cleared the cache, changed the value of the environment and system variable TEMP… but finally I believe that this is a problem with permission rights as someone suggested.
When I log in to Windows (win2k, sp4) with my windows administrator username and login to notes with that user’s ID, the spellcheck works fine. It’s only when I login to windows with that user’s username and attempt to use notes that the problem occurs.
Hope someone can help.
Subject: <2nd post> Error during main dictionary spell initialization
First suggestion:This sounds if you have Fileaccessproblems in Windows. Put the current user in the group for local administrators. If the problem perexist this is not a Notes Problem, but a windows problem. Lotus Notes is installed by default in the program directory. If this is not a multiuser installation this can make problems, because w2k seems to prohibit write access to the program directory for normal users. For this reason we install the singleuser-client in \Lotus\Notes (the default in R5).
Second suggestion:
After a Client Update from R5 to R6, sometimes we have problems with the Spellcheck
In the local notes.ini should be the following entries (search for SPELL):
SPELL_LANG=[XXXXX] (Delete this Entry)
SPELL_DLL=ltspln50.dll
SPELL_DIR=[Notes Data Directory] (verify this Entry)
SPELL_PREFERENCES=0 (Delete this Entry]
If you have deleted the two entries and verified the SPELL_DIR Entry, open Notes again and reconfigure the spellcheck in the user-preferences.
Third suggestion (perhaps you did this before):
delete cache.ndk, cache.dsk, bookmark.nsf (attention all bookmarks will be gone), desktop.dsk, desktop.ndk (attention R4 Desktop will be gone), user.dic (attention the user dictionary will be gone)
I hope that helps.
Subject: RE: <2nd post> Error during main dictionary spell initialization
This is what worked for me:
The workaround to this problem is to create a C:\temp or C:\winnt\temp directory and change the system settings in the OS to make that directory the system Temp directory. This may correct the problem in some instances, but in most cases, the user will also have to reinstall Notes. The user installing Notes must have full access rights to the Temp directory created.
To change the system settings to designate a different Temp directory:
1. Ensure that a Temp directory exists on your client workstation, or create one if needed. (examples: c:\temp or c:\winnt\temp, etc.)
2. Click the Start button on the Windows task bar, then select Settings, Control Panel.
3. Double-click the System icon.
4. Switch to the Advanced tab, then select the Environmental Variables button.
5. In the User Variables box, highlight the TEMP variable and select the Edit button. Replace the current contents of the Variable Value box (example: "%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temp") with the exact syntax of your Temp directory you designated in Step 1 above (for example: c:\temp).
6. In the System Variables box, perform the same task: highlight the TEMP variable and select the Edit button. Replace the current contents of the Variable Value box (example: "%SystemRoot\Temp") with the exact syntax of your Temp directory you designated in Step 1 above (for example: c:\temp).
If the error still occurs after correcting the location of the Temp subdirectory, exit Notes, delete or rename the Cache.dsk file on that client workstation, and restart Notes. In one known case, this process eliminated the spellcheck error.