System wide spellcheck - settings

Where can I change the settings for system wide spellchecking?

Thanks for the quick answer. Unfortunately, this does not solve my problem. In the system preferences, I may enter strings to be automatically replaced by other strings or phrases. What I need is to deselect the option that each sentence starts with a capital letter. Since the character "." is ambiguous by definition, it is a full stop and an indicator for an abbreviation; and sometimes also a decimal separator, the character behind it is capitalized whatever happens. There must be a possibility to get rid of this help.

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System wide font settings

I am a websdite designer / developer and I am noticing that I may have accidently hit a key combination that has changed my system wide font settings...
I have a co-worker, same hardware / software and my browsers render my code different. Same browser, same versions, etc.
It seems my fonts a slightly larger, etc.
Can someone please direct me toward the system settings to fix this? Ive checked my settings and have yet to come across anything that
seems like it has helped at all. Its every browser for me, safari, chrome, firefox, etc.
I have checked 4-5 other mac computers and all render properly.
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I found the issue.
The site I built is rendering RALEWAY from google fonts... but since i have Raleway installed in my fonts, in my font book, its using my computer to render the font rather than google fonts for some reason. I disabled my raleway font in font book and now it renders properly...

System wide proxy settings without gnome and kde

Hi,
this is my software stack:
linux
X
openbox
chromium
my university had the great idea to cencor and filter the internet so that students can't do bad stuff and besides that can't do anything at all. They even block ping and ssh connections.. but that's another story.
here are my problems with that:
chomium devs seem to live in a very small world in which only kde and gnome exist, because these envirenments are the only way to let chromium know that it should use a proxy server.
I've written a small script that works perfectly for most of my stuff. here it is:
$ cat ~/.proxyon
export http_proxy='proxy.fh-brandenburg.de:3128'
export https_proxy='proxy.fh-brandenburg.de:3128'
export ftp_proxy='ftp-proxy.fh-brandenburg.de:21'
export socks5_proxy='socks5-proxy.fh-brandenburg.de:1080'
export HTTP_PROXY=http_proxy
export HTTPS_PROXY=https_proxy
export FTP_PROXY=ftp_proxy
export SOCKS5_PROXY=socks5_proxy
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy autoconfig-url 'http://proxy.fh-brandenburg.de/proxy.pac'
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy mode 'manual'
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.http enabled true
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.http host 'proxy.fh-brandenburg.de'
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.http port 3128
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.https host 'proxy.fh-brandenburg.de'
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.https port 3128
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.ftp host 'ftp-proxy.fh-brandenburg.de'
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.ftp port 21
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.socks host 'socks5-proxy.fh-brandenburg.de'
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.socks port 1080
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy ignore-hosts "['localhost', '127.0.0.0/8', '*.fh-brandenburg.de' ]"
to start chromium i've made another script to test the proxy behavier:
$ cat ~/start_chromium.sh
source ~/.proxyon && echo $http_proxy && chromium
This should work because I set every proxy variable I'm aware of and the script spits out the correct proxy server but chromium still don't uses any proxies. Does anyone have a solution to this? I'm out of ideas..

delta24 wrote:Try creating a script in /etc/profile.d named proxy.sh having all the proxy config.
The behavier I want to achieve is that I can hot swap proxy and non proxy networks without restarting the browser. This works under gnome because chromium reads the proxy config from gconf which gets updated on network change but this doesn't work without gnome.
Most of the time I'm on networks without proxies. Only in university I need them. A simple switch to activate them when needed would be nice.

My US english dictionary for the system-wide spellcheck has died

At some point in the past few days I noticed that my spelling had gotten a lot more accurate... or so I thought. Actually, what happened is, for some reason, whenever I choose ordinary US English as my dictionary for the spell checker, it thinks that every word is spelled right. This isn't an UBER problem because there is the UK dictionary too... but I would still like to fix my US English dictionary so that I don't have to spell colour wrong.
I wouldn't mind just resetting all of the dictionaries, I just don't see a place to do that.

If the language is set ithe paragraph style, that's where it needs to be changed. If it's local formatting override you can use Find/Change to change the exixiting text all at once, but that won't change the style definition. A global definition change might be possible via script. Ask over in InDesign Scripting

System wide default setting of column properties

Hi
How could I get rid of 'system-wide default' properties which got set to the column properties? (BISE1 10.1.3.2.1 Answers....criteria)
Thanks and Regards,
Charudatta

ASCII and thou shall be ANSI ;-)
http://siebel-essentials.blogspot.com/2008/08/remove-system-wide-default-settings-in.html
Ok, that was a lame joke , I admit.
Cheers,
C.

System-wide Medical Spellchecker Dictionary

Hello all,
Perhaps you can help me...I'd like to use Stedman's Plus Spellchecker (http://www.stedmans.com/product.cfm/549/null) system-wide, but it only works for microsoft office 2004 currently. I understand that it may be a binary file of some kind, but I would like to extract the words from the file and add them to my "en" dictionary w/in ~/Library/Spelling. How can I convert the file to get it to function as a system-wide medical spell checker?
Thanks!

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1085614&tstart=500
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1081773&tstart=500
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1074142&tstart=550
Those are a few for a start. The problem is not as rare as one might think if one saunters around the other threads.
I will try your suggestion of making another user account to see if it works. However, even if it does, it is far from an ideal solution as I only want one account from which to work in.
Thanks.

File Type Associations Do Not Stick System-Wide CS4

When I set File Type Associations for PSD, Tiff, DNG and Jpeg fles in Bridge CS4 so that my files will open in PS CS3 (and insure that the same file associations apply in Bridge CS3), this works as it should from within CS4 and CS3, but it is impossible to introduce a system-wide change in Mac OS 10.5.5 via File-Info. It always reverts to CS4 for these file types, if I try to 'modify all'. The same thing happened when I upgraded from CS2 to CS3.

If File Type Associations are set properly in the Bridge preferences, the default setting can be made to open files in PS CS3, with CS4 installed. This works from within CS3 and CS4. However, it sometimes happens that one is in the Finder, and the default remains PS CS4, however much one tries (via File-Get Info) to modify the default system-wide settings so that these files open in CS3. In any event, a bit invasive. Of course, if I could get comfortable with the Adjustment Layer Panels, all this would be unnecessary, but for the moment, there appear to be too many clicks, and it is going to take some time, so I don't want to burn bridges. Perhaps there is also some ambiguity in my mind as to what the pointing finger in the new Curves dialogue box, much like a tolling bell, is trying to tell me.
But thanks, once again Anne, for your good-natured help.

Setting ALSA sound card system wide (rather than just in KDE)

Hi,
I've got an HTPC with an ATI Radeon HD 4350 graphics card running Arch x86. It has its own integrated sound card for outputting audio via HDMI, which is detected by ALSA as a separate device. I've managed to set it as the default audio device in KDE 4 (via System Settings). This allows applications such as Amarok and SMPlayer to properly output audio to the HD 4350's integrated sound card, but software such as Flash and MPlayer (from the command line) are still outputting audio to the motherboard's built-in sound card. How can I change this setting on a system-wide level? I've tried running alsaconf as root and adding
pcm.!default {
type hw
card 2
device 3
to ~/.asoundrc; I got the card and device numbers from aplay:
[htpc@exia ~]$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: HDA Generic [HDA Generic]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: ATI HDMI [ATI HDMI]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Here is the output from MPlayer when I try to play a video, complete with errors regarding audio:
MPlayer UNKNOWN-4.4.0 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
137 audio & 296 video codecs
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
Playing /tmp/FlashmvWXPy.
libavformat file format detected.
[flv @ 0xac7d250]skipping flv packet: type 18, size 294, flags 0
[lavf] Video stream found, -vid 0
[lavf] Audio stream found, -aid 1
VIDEO: [H264] 854x480 0bpp 29.970 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding)
FAAD: compressed input bitrate missing, assuming 128kbit/s!
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [faad] afm: faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio))
==========================================================================
[AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '2'
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:3985:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm.c:2211:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
[AO_ALSA] Playback open error: No such file or directory
[JACK] cannot open server
[AO SDL] Samplerate: 44100Hz Channels: Stereo Format s16le
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '2'
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:3985:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm.c:2211:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
[AO SDL] Unable to open audio: No available audio device
DVB card number must be between 1 and 4
AO: [null] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 854 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 854x480 => 854x480 Planar YV12
Thanks!
Last edited by w1ntermute (2009-06-28 18:40:03)

whoops wrote:Do you use the motherboard sound-card?
No.
whoops wrote:If not - did you try just turning it off in bios (or blacklisting the driver)?
No, I haven't tried that. I'll give it a shot. Thanks for the tip!
Last edited by w1ntermute (2009-07-02 18:11:53)

W2K8 & Win7 - Setting system-wide Trusted file locations not working

Win 2008 Network, Win 7 workstations.
RE: Setting system-wide trusted file locations
I have an application using Flash stored on a network location that accesses other files in the same location. This causes the security warning "The following local application... is trying to communicate with this internet-enabled..." I can add the location to the trusted sites in the Setting Manager and the warning goes away. It is not practical however to do this on every machine on the network. I have tried the FlashPlayerTrust directory and mms.cfg file and neither of these seem to work. Is there a trick to getting the FlashPlayerTrust directory to work properly. If I could get this working, I could create a script that copies this file to all machines on the network.
Any help you be greatly appreciated.

Hi Todd,
Can you please provide just a little more detail?
* When you say "accessess", what API is being used? Are the paths to the other files relative, file: URI http: URI, other?
* In the FlashPlayerTrust directory, are you using the same path notation as appears in the Settings Manager? What's a sample {filename}.{ext} being used?
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System wide PDF presets location is not working in CC

On both Mac and PC, the system wide location for PDF settings (.joboptions) does not work anymore.
/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe PDF/Settings (on a Mac)
It is illogical to remove this feature. Even if that folder does not store the main default presets, which are now stored in each application, it still needs to be looked at and loaded from. It's actually illogical to store the same preset in multiple locations (i.e. each application). If there is a preset that is only for a certain application (e.g. Illustrator Default), this could be put in the application folder, but all others like High Quality, Prepress, PDF/X should be in a central location, i.e. where they used to be.
I know that each user can manually load into their own PDF presets, which then do appear in all suite apps, but this has to be done every time a new user logs into a computer.
The central location meant that all suite apps would see a custom set of presets automatically across the entire suite and across multiple versions of the suite. The other advantage to the central location is that the presets would appear in square brackets, in other words read only, so they cannot be changed by the user without saving as a new file.
Having users manually load and be able to change the presets kind of defeats the purpose of having a preset, certainly in our environment, where we need these settings to be consistent across all apps, all computers and all users.
Please put this feature back or at least honour the central location that used to be used.

Hi,
As per the description, I understand that your Office 2013 cannot open files through a network share directly.
I would like to know that how many clients/users are affected by this in your environment. It could be some specific user account settings, that the Office applications are being affected by.
I'd first suggest you try with a new Windows user profile, then verify result.
Regards,
Ethan Hua
TechNet Community Support
It's recommended to download and install
Configuration Analyzer Tool (OffCAT), which is developed by Microsoft Support teams. Once the tool is installed, you can run it at any time to scan for hundreds of known issues in Office
programs.

Preference Pane for system wide audio EQ? (2 yrs later)

I fully agree with the quoted message underneath.
*"Is there some sort of universal Equalizer I can apply to all my audio? A Preference Pane would be great! I listen to an internet radio client (XM Radio) that doesn't have any EQ control.*
*I know Audio Hijack can do this. But I'd rather not run a whole other application on top of the radio client just for EQ."* (original post from Feb 20, 2007 5:07 PM)
I can't believe that almost 2 years later, there is still no system wide equalizer in OS X, working always, like, while watching YouTube or whatever. Yes, I know there is Hear now, but both apps, Hear and Audio Hijack Pro, are expensive and overkill for the simple ability to change some equalizer settings. A preference pane would be much better.

I found a system wide EQ along with mixer and many other functions it works great its called Hear this is the web sight http://www.joesoft.com/products/hear.php

Java doesn't pick up system's DNS settings change until restarted

Hello,
I have a service running on a few Linux computers. Those computers have a NIC, which is configured with a fixed IP address. So /etc/resolv.conf contains the IP address of the LAN's DNS server. But most of the time, the computers are not plugged into the LAN at all. Instead, they connect themselves periodically to the Internet by establishing a ppp connection. When it happens, the ISP's DHCP server assign them new IP parameters, including their DNS server's IP address. And /etc/resolv.conf gets updated with this address.
But it seems that java doesn't take care of DNS change taking place during a run. Which means that my program (started at boot with no connectivity at all) tries to connect to some host, and obviously trigger an "UnknownHostException" (at that point it does try to contact the LAN's DNS server). Quite logical. Later, the ppp link become active. But my program still try to contact the LAN's DNS server, despite the new configuration in /etc/resolv.conf. As such, it will forever trigger UnknowHostExceptions, until it gets restarted (it will then pick up the new settings) or it is plugged back into the LAN (it will finally reach the LAN's DNS server).
This is quite a problem as during one single execution, the machine may encounter several DNS configuration changes, and this problem basically means that it will be impossible for my application to resolve any name at all.
So is there a way to tell Java to re-read the system wide DNS configuration? Or is there some option to prevent Java to "cache" the DNS server to use?
To demonstrate my problem, I've written a simple test case, see below.
To get the problem:
1) Put a bogus DNS server into your /etc/resolv.conf
2) Start the test program. Wait for some time: it will trigger UnknownHostExceptions.
3) Fix the entry in /etc/resolv.conf, and check it actually works (eg ping www.google.be)
4) Test program will continue to trigger UnknownHostExceptions forever.
One interesting fact is that someone tried this test on Windows, and didn't suffer from this behaviour, eg the application reacts to DNS system settings changes dynamically. So it looks like a Linux-only problem.
Thanks in advance for your insight.
Pierre-Yves
package com.test.dnsresolver;
import java.net.InetAddress;
import java.net.UnknownHostException;
public class DnsResolver {
    private static String urlString = "www.google.com";
    public static void main(String[] args) {
         * Specified in java.security to indicate the caching policy for successful
         * name lookups from the name service. The value is specified as as integer
         * to indicate the number of seconds to cache the successful lookup.
        java.security.Security.setProperty("networkaddress.cache.ttl" , "10");
         * Specified in java.security to indicate the caching policy for un-successful
         * name lookups from the name service. The value is specified as as integer to
         * indicate the number of seconds to cache the failure for un-successful lookups.
         * A value of 0 indicates "never cache". A value of -1 indicates "cache forever".
        java.security.Security.setProperty("networkaddress.cache.negative.ttl", "0");
        int loopCounter = 0;
        while (true) {
            InetAddress resolved;
            try {
                resolved = InetAddress.getByName(urlString);
                System.out.println("Loop " + loopCounter + ": resolved IP address: " + resolved);
            } catch (UnknownHostException e) {
                System.out.println("Loop " + loopCounter + ": UnknownHostException");
                e.printStackTrace();
            loopCounter++;
            try {
                Thread.sleep(1000);
            } catch (InterruptedException e) {}
}

Well, the nameservice property allowing to specify my DNS server of choice is interesting (I didn't know about those), but not very usable, as the DNS server to use is not known in advance (it may be whatever the ISP tells me to use at the time where the ppp link gets established). So no real solution there.
The fact that it caches /etc/resolv.conf content for 300s is very interesting, but having no possibility to impact on this duration really is a pity. There should be some kind of property to fix this behaviour. So as you say, a custom provider may be the only solution.
So far, the hack I use to get this working is based on code similar to this one (it is presented here in a similar form than my test case above). Obviously, reading the /etc/resolv.conf for each dns resolution is not an option in a real environment, but you get the idea.
package com.test.dnsresolver;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
public class DnsResolver {
     private static final String urlString = "www.google.com";
     private static final String resolvConf = "/etc/resolv.conf";
     public static void main(String[] args) {
          int loopCounter = 0;
          while (true) {
               loopCounter++;
               try {
                    Thread.sleep(1000);
               } catch (InterruptedException e) {}
               // Parse the current DNS server to be used in the config
               String nameserver = null;
               try {
                    BufferedReader input = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(new File(resolvConf)));
                    String currentLine = null;
                    while (( currentLine = input.readLine()) != null){
                         // Take care of potential comments
                         currentLine = currentLine.substring(0, currentLine.indexOf("#") == -1
                                   ? currentLine.length() : currentLine.indexOf("#") );
                         if (currentLine.contains("nameserver")) {
                              // It is the line we are looking for
                              nameserver = currentLine;
                              break;
               } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
                    System.out.println("Loop " + loopCounter + ": FileNotFoundException");
               } catch (IOException e) {
                    System.out.println("Loop " + loopCounter + ": IOException");
               if (nameserver == null) {
                    // No "nameserver" line found
                    System.out.println("Loop " + loopCounter + ": No nameserver found in configration file!");
                    continue;
               // Trim it to just contain the IP address
               nameserver = (nameserver.replace("nameserver", "")).trim();
               System.out.println("Loop " + loopCounter + ": Going to use DNS server " + nameserver);
               // At this point, we know which server to use, now perform the resolution
               Hashtable<String, String> env = new Hashtable<String, String>();
               env.put("java.naming.factory.initial", "com.sun.jndi.dns.DnsContextFactory");
               env.put("java.naming.provider.url",    "dns://" + nameserver);
               DirContext ictx;
               try {
                    ictx = new InitialDirContext(env);
                    Attributes attrs1 = ictx.getAttributes(urlString, new String[] {"A"});
                    System.out.println("Loop " + loopCounter + ": Manual resolution: +" + attrs1.get("a").get() + "+");
               } catch (NamingException e) {
                    System.out.println("Loop " + loopCounter + ": NamingException");
}So maybe I should adapt and package this into a proper provider and specify it for sun.net.spi.nameservice.provider. Any link, info or example about how a proper provider should look like?
Thanks for your advices!

"system-wide" proxy ?

I might not have the terminology quite right on this, I'm far from being an expert on the subject. That's why I'm turning to you guys !!!!!!!!!
I'm currently tethering my iPhone's connection via an app called PDANet which allows the computer to connect to a sort of 'wifi router' via an ad-hoc connection. While this doesn't quite work as they advertise it to (probably something I'm not doing that's getting auto 'automagically' in Windows/OS X), I am able to 'connect' to my iPhone and get offered an IP back when this app is running. I then launch the small socks server from the iPhone's term and voila I can use it to browse the tubes in firefox (with the proper settings).
Which is what brings me to my question: using this connection to my socks5 server running on my iPhone, I can resolve names and do http, at least. I'm just wondering, why this could be not set up as a 'system wide' service. In other words, all apps that want to connect to a certain IP/domain to a certain port, will do so as they always do. In other words why can't I set up a sort of service or daemon that uses this socks5 connection to the iPhone and sends back the data to the apps? As if my nameserver were the IP on the iPhone ? Or would I need something else running on the phone to provide that capability ?
Right now, when I dhcpcd, I get my IP from the iPhone, but nothing gets written in /etc/resolv.conf. I can only ping the iPhone's IP (which is the one I use to connect via proxy in firefox), and what I can only assume is my phone's IP on the 3G network, which starts with 10 (if that means anything to you experts.)....
Anyway, I'd like your thoughts on this..

delta24 wrote:Try creating a script in /etc/profile.d named proxy.sh having all the proxy config.
The behavier I want to achieve is that I can hot swap proxy and non proxy networks without restarting the browser. This works under gnome because chromium reads the proxy config from gconf which gets updated on network change but this doesn't work without gnome.
Most of the time I'm on networks without proxies. Only in university I need them. A simple switch to activate them when needed would be nice.

System wide mini malfunctions

I have a mac mini i5 (2.3 GHz mid 2012)
OS X 10.8.3
I have multiple log in accounts (main, kids etc)
I upgraded to Mountain Lion a few months ago and just now realized there are system wide malfunctions going on.
Prior to upgrade, I backed up, wiped the drive clean, then installed Lion and a week later upgraded to Mountain Lion.
Problems:
Loging into account C: I am greeted with a "Enter iCloud ID or create a new one" then another screen saying "Enjoy your computer." I have entered the info at this prompt and am greeted by the same prompt the next time I log in. I have had an icloud account for months and this info is entered in the Pref Settings as well. It is as if the computer is not remebering the info I am entering.
Login items that have been turned off, will be turned back on after login or reboot.
Account A- Finder - if I customize the side bar of the finder window, it will accept the changes for my current session, but if I log out or restart, the customization is reverted back to the default
Mail - opens two window upon launching, it will not remember my toolbar customization (similar to the finder side bar problem above)
will not remember changes to pref settings like "move junk mail to trash"
Account B Safari will not remember auto log in info.
I've tried repairing disk permissions
I've gotten advice to delete various .plists and data states.
None of this has helped. I feel like I'm working on a computer in the public library. Urrggh!

Back up all data. Don't continue unless you're sure you can restore from a backup, even if you're unable to log in.
This procedure will unlock all your user files (not system files) and reset their ownership and access-control lists to the default. If you've set special values for those attributes on any of your files, they will be reverted. In that case, either stop here, or be prepared to recreate the settings if necessary. Do so only after verifying that those settings didn't cause the problem. If none of this is meaningful to you, you don't need to worry about it.
Step 1
If you have more than one user account, and the one in question is not an administrator account, then temporarily promote it to administrator status in the Users & Groups preference pane. To do that, unlock the preference pane using the credentials of an administrator, check the box marked Allow user to administer this computer, then reboot. You can demote the problem account back to standard status when this step has been completed.
Triple-click the following line to select it. Copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C):
{ sudo chflags -R nouchg,nouappnd ~ $TMPDIR.. ; sudo chown -R $UID:staff ~ $_ ; sudo chmod -R u+rwX ~ $_ ; chmod -R -N ~ $_ ; } 2> /dev/null
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window (command-V). You'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. If you don’t have a login password, you’ll need to set one before you can run the command. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.
The command will take a noticeable amount of time to run. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign (“$”) to appear, then quit Terminal.
Step 2 (optional)
Step 1 should give you usable permissions in your home folder. This step will restore special attributes set by OS X on some user folders to protect them from unintended deletion or renaming. You can skip this step if you don't consider that protection to be necessary, and if everything is working as expected after step 1.
Boot into Recovery by holding down the key combination command-R at startup. Release the keys when you see a gray screen with a spinning dial.
When the OS X Utilities screen appears, select
Utilities ▹ Terminal
from the menu bar. A Terminal window will open.
In the Terminal window, type this:
res
Press the tab key. The partial command you typed will automatically be completed to this:
resetpassword
Press return. A Reset Password window will open. You’re not going to reset a password.
Select your boot volume ("Macintosh HD," unless you gave it a different name) if not already selected.
Select your username from the menu labeled Select the user account if not already selected.
Under Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs, click the Reset button.
Select
 ▹ Restart
from the menu bar.

Restoring one system-wide dictionary (issue with spell checking)

Hello all,
For some reason, spell checking is behaving badly: it won't spell check German correctly anymore, even though it is set on “Multilingual”. English is alright, so I suspect my German dictionary got corrupt.
My questions are:
1- Will installing the 10.5.7 update resolve the issue?
2- Where can I find the system-wide dictionaries used for spell-checking by OS X?
3- Where can I download these dictionaries?
I hope a clean install is not required just to get one dictionary/spellcheck file back…
Thanks very much all!

it won't spell check German correctly anymore, even though it is set on “Multilingual”.
How about when you set it to Deutsch?
2- Where can I find the system-wide dictionaries used for spell-checking by OS X?
3- Where can I download these dictionaries?
You can't find them or download them.
I hope a clean install is not required just to get one dictionary/spellcheck file back…
Maybe. You could also install CocoAspell and add a German dictionary from its selection.
http://cocoaspell.leuski.net/

System wide spellcheck - settings

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