I just bought a new MacBook Pro. The only source available in the Dictionary App is Wikipedia. How do add the sources that were in my previous laptop's dictionary (i.e. New Oxford American Dictionary, Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus, and Apple Dictionary)?
*Edit: The Macbook Pro 13 listed below is my OLD laptop. My new one is macOS 12.5
MacBook Pro 13″
Building on a previous post - the below is related to keeping the computer up to date and specific to the Monterey 12.6.5 Security Update
Keep your Mac up to date - Apple Support (CA)
About the security content of macOS Monterey 12.6.5 - Apple Support
Thank you, P. Phillips, I do have "All" selected. There are no sources in the Dictionary (as loaded from the factory) besides wikipedia. I bought the computer new just days ago. It is loaded with Monterey 12.5. I understand and agree with you that it needs to be updated from 12.5 to the current 12.6.5--which I will do shortly. But I doubt that this particular issue is related.
User wrote " I just bought a new MacBook Pro. "
The return it under the " 14 Day No Questions " Policy if purchased from Apple
If that is not amenable >>
Then have a few suggestions ;
1 - Get Support Choose a product and we’ll find you the best solution.
Start now and open an Apple Support Ticket as they are Apple Employees to deal will these types of issues .
Thanks. I'm downloading Ventura right now. We'll see if that helps. I appreciate your quick response--you were the first to try to help (and that you asked clarifying questions first to ensure you understood the real issue). Thank you for giving me your time.
You're right. Who knows what else is missing that I haven't even had time to discover yet. But before I take it back (even doing that is a hassle), I am downloading Ventura. Maybe a complete upgrade of the OS will result in the missing resources being installed. Thank you for taking the time to help me work through this. I do appreciate it.
The user may be fortunate and upGrading to Ventura from Monterey 12.5 Released Jul 20, 2022 ( 21G72 ) may install without issues and may fix the Dictionary issue,
Though, from my experience and observations, upGrading from an Out of Date pervious version can be problematic .
Users' Choice but if it were my machine, which it is not, would do the 12.6.5 Monterey First
Once that is achieved, Test if the Dictionary Issue is resolved
Just IMHO though
FWIW, updating may replace the missing sources.
Are you saying when you open Dictionary > Preferences there's no list to scroll through?
Image below is Screen Shot of the Dictionary Application and opened
Arrow point to ALL versus Wikipedia
Yes, dialabrain, that is exactly it. The only source that came with the newly purchased MacBook is wikipedia.
jkb2512 wrote:
*Edit: The Macbook Pro 13 listed below is my OLD laptop. My new one is macOS 12.5
Just to add, the current version of Monterey is 12.6.5.
You're welcome.
Okay. That's the safer play. Will go that route. Thanks.
Glad that was helpful
Conservative appear in my bias on this type of Computer approach
Dictionary for MacOS Monterey
