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[dbnfred]

Hi,
I just came about what seems to me a major flaw and a potential data loss scenario. I had a book review containing 10691 words and 557 paragraphs. I selected all and chose to 'checking selection'. It warned me that the selection is too large and my system peformace may degrade. I accepted that and completed spell-checking the doc. When done, I clicked OK to paste it back and to my supersize, my doc has shrunk to 1031 words and 42 paragraphs. This scared the hell out of me. Luckily, I was able to get it back with a ctrl+z. But WHY?

If this turns to be a limitation, I will be heart-broken! Please tell me otherwise.

[John Tytler]

Hi,

There may be a problem with really large documents in check selection. Generally you can get around this by checking smaller passages at a time. Most people use check selection to check e-mails or posts before sending them off, or to check web pages before posting them.

Right now I can't explain why your document got chopped down, without actually trying it myself.

Is it possible for you to send the document to me so I could try it here? If not that actual document, do you have one of a similar size that I could try.

I'm well into the process of rewriting the entire check selection code right now for an upcoming release and would like to find something of this size for test purposes.

You can e-mail me directly through john_at_rainmakerinc.com.

Thanks,
John Tytler
Author - Spell Catcher Plus
Rainmaker Research, Inc.

[dbnfred]

Just sent it to 'john at rainmakerinc dot com'. Thought your e-mail format got changed some how 'john_at_'. Please confirm receiving the mail.

As I said in the email, I use PIM (personal information mgr) to house all my docs. It does not have a built-in spell checker and being able to check large docs is crusial to me. Please let me know if there is work around or fix.

Thank you ...

(I know am a not registered user yet and, yet, acting as one. I just need few more days to see what else is there besides the issue we found so far. After all uncovering issues should benefit you as well.)

[Evan Gross]

I'm sure John got your email. We don't type "real" email addresses here on the forums since they get search engine spidered, and we already get enough spam...(hence the john_at...).

We appreciate the feedback! That's how things get fixed if necessary, and that's how the product gets better (we can't think of everything ourselves, and no two customers use Spell Catcher in exactly the same way because of the rich array of features and preferences).

[dbnfred]

The issue has been resolved. Thank you ...