Moving Plover Dictionary to New Computer

[Barclay Adams Court Reporting]

Hi, I am very new to this, and am so excited that I am able to use this.  I am very excited how well the dictionary works, and have started putting in my own translations.  My question is how do you get the dictionary you've created with the new translations to another computer?  The computer I've been playing around with is not the computer I want to take with me to depositions.  I got a new computer for this, but need to know how to get the dictionary from the old computer to the new one?  Thanks!

[Glen Warner]

On Friday, December 15, 2017 at 7:30:50 PM UTC-8, Barclay Adams Court Reporting wrote:

Hi, I am very new to this, and am so excited that I am able to use this.  I am very excited how well the dictionary works, and have started putting in my own translations.  My question is how do you get the dictionary you've created with the new translations to another computer?  The computer I've been playing around with is not the computer I want to take with me to depositions.  I got a new computer for this, but need to know how to get the dictionary from the old computer to the new one?  Thanks!

Hi, Barclay.

I have Plover running on two different computers (three if I count the one running Windows, but I don't use Plover on that one very often), so from time to time I update the Plover dictionaries on my MacBook Pro simply by locating the appropriate .rtf/.json file and copying it to my DropBox folder, and once it has arrived on the other Mac, I copy that dictionary to the appropriate folder on the MacBook Pro, replacing the version that was there before.

Easy-peasy!

--gdw 

[Barclay Adams Admin]

I am sorry to bug you, but I do appreciate your help.  I am not a computer person so this is hard for me, but I'm trying.  I found on my computer three files main.json, user.json, and commands.json, they are the ones that come up on the plover dictionary menu.  I copied those onto a flash drive. I never put my own dictionary on here, but used the one on there and have been updating it.  Are those the right files to copy and transfer?  Thanks!

Lisa R. Thomas

Barclay Adams Court Reporting

P.O. Box 1374

Frederick, MD  21702

(240) 529-6825

(240) 625-8418

www.barclayadams.com

barclayada...@gmail.com

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[Glen Warner]

On Monday, February 12, 2018 at 5:38:47 PM UTC-8, Barclay Adams Court Reporting wrote:

I am sorry to bug you, but I do appreciate your help.  I am not a computer person so this is hard for me, but I'm trying.  I found on my computer three files main.json, user.json, and commands.json, they are the ones that come up on the plover dictionary menu.  I copied those onto a flash drive. I never put my own dictionary on here, but used the one on there and have been updating it.  Are those the right files to copy and transfer?  Thanks!

Lisa R. Thomas

Barclay Adams Court Reporting

P.O. Box 1374

Frederick, MD  21702

(240) 529-6825

(240) 625-8418

www.barclayadams.com

barclayada...@gmail.com

 
Hi, Lisa.

If those are the only dictionaries you've been using, then they should be the ones you want -- but just so you know, the Commands dictionary contains keyboard commands you can do from your steno keyboard, like CNTRL-S for "Save," arrow movements, etc. (there's a list in this group somewhere that explains what's what).

I *BELIEVE* that the "User.json" dictionary is empty, so that's probably where your outlines are going.

The remaining dictionary should be the one with the theory in it ... but if you have your own theory, you should really use that.  Otherwise, you'll be spending a lot of time adding stuff you don't really need to since they're in your CAT software's dictionary ... so you should export that dictionary as an .rtf file and put it somewhere (my dictionaries are in my "Dictionaries" folder, somewhere deep inside the Documents folder).

As for myself, the only dictionaries I have are my Phoenix Theory dictionary, my "Glenz_Fast" dictionary, which is where all of the non-Phoenix outlines go, and when I'm doing transcription work for a given client, I have a dictionary *JUST* for that client.

The few commands I do use are in that "Glenz_Fast" dictionary.

As for your "not a computer person" issue (I hear that there's a lot of that going around!), this old article might help a bit:

http://www.cheapandsleazy.net/gotfear.html

Hope that helps you out a bit ...! :o)

--gdw