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Dictionary App is not working. Mac OS X-El Capitan 10.11

Hello,


I open Dictionary app, it comes to the Dock, but never opens.


I saw lots of ".plist" file solutions but I couldn't find these specific files in /Library/Preferences/.


I need help about that.


Hint: I was trying to add some new dictionaries in /Library/Dictionaries/ file. It was going successfully but I don't know what happened.


Thanks a lot,

Mert

MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11)

Posted on Oct 10, 2015 7:04 AM

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Oct 10, 2015 12:52 PM in response to emirez

For .plists, try your user Library, not the hard drive level Library.


Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Library.

Oct 10, 2015 1:44 PM in response to emirez

Launch the Console 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 and start typing the name.

The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select

SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages

from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select

View ▹ Show Log List

from the menu bar at the top of the screen.

Click the Clear Display icon in the toolbar. Then take an action that isn't working the way you expect. Select any lines that appear in the Console window. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.

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Oct 11, 2015 4:18 AM in response to Linc Davis

Hello Linc,


I did the exact things, what you said. After this process, I again tried to open Dictionary.app, it came to the Dock, but when I click on that, it never opens. I close this again. I am adding the lines from console, two lines for two actions.


First Line: When I click on Dictionary.app.

Second Line: I left click to Dictionary in Dock and close.


11.10.2015 13:15:51,981 Dictionary[1453]: *** -[__NSArrayM insertObject:atIndex:]: object cannot be nil

11.10.2015 13:16:09,875 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.Dictionary.5152[1453]) Service exited due to signal: Killed: 9


Thank you.

Oct 11, 2015 11:24 AM in response to emirez

Back up all data.

Quit Dictionary if it's running. Test after taking each of the following steps that you haven't already taken. Stop when the problem is resolved.

Step 1

Hold down the option key and select Go Library from the Finder menu bar. From the Library folder, move the following subfolder, if it exists, to the Trash:

Containers/com.apple.Dictionary

Step 2

Move this subfolder to the Desktop in the same way:

Dictionaries

Log out or restart the computer. If there's no change, put the folder back where it was.

Step 3

Please back up all data, then open the iCloud pane in System Preferences. If the box marked iCloud Drive is checked, uncheck it and confirm. Your iCloud data should be preserved on Apple's servers.

Test to see whether there's an improvement, then re-check the box and test again. It may take a noticeable amount of time for your iCloud Drive data to resynchronize.

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