Spell Check Language Resets to English (United States) upon every Restart

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Steps to reproduce

Set spell check language to anything other than English (United States) and restart Windows or Mac desktop version

Expected result

Spell check language should remain on en_GB (or anything else).

Actual result

Language resets to English (United States)

Environment

Windows 10, Mac OS (most recent), and Android app

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Additional comments

2

I canā€™t repro, unfortunately. Do you close the app immediately after you set the spellchecking language? Giving it a few seconds might help :slight_smile:

3

Hi Erica,

Thanks for trying to repo. Have confirmed that the language resets whether itā€™s shutdown after a few seconds, a few hours, or a few days. This has persisted for me across multiple updates too, and a move from standard to Pro. Is there an account- rather than a local-setting that Iā€™m missing thatā€™s overwriting the language set on each of my devices perhaps?

4

This should be a synced setting across all your devices.

Just to make sure, youā€™re connected to the internet, right?

5

Indeed. This is certainly quirky but I can live with it of course, definitely not an app-breaking problem.

6

Thanks for being so understanding! Weā€™ll look into it and update you here.

7

So itā€™s suddenly hit me why this is happening - I use Dynalist on both a Windows at home and a Mac at work, and each app has a different list of spell checker languages, likely decided by the dictionaries installed on the OS. When I set the language on Windows to English (United Kingdom), this change isnā€™t synced to my Mac because the equivalent there is en_GB. When it canā€™t find the same language dictionary it reverts back to English (United States)ā€¦ and then resets the Windows language when manually set to en_GB on the Mac.

Interesting problem, maybe not one that can be fixed by Dynalist though?

8

Oh that sounds like a plausible explanation.

While we donā€™t have a fix for it now, we have some plans to improve on settings sync, where the app would have ā€œlocalā€ overrides for the platform only, which isnā€™t synced. This is more commonly requested for things like font size overrides, but I can see it as a solution for your case. Stay tuned!