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October 13

Removing an entry from my spellchecker

I use Edge on Win10. Today I accidentally added "teh" as a correct spelling to the spellcheck. How do I remove it? Thank you, DuncanHill (talk) 00:12, 13 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Click the "..." icon in the upper right.

Select "Settings".

Select "Languages"

At the bottom of that screen there's an option to add/delete words from your spellcheck.

Hope this helps. ApLundell (talk) 02:22, 13 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@ApLundell: Thank you, that is exactly what I needed to know. DuncanHill (talk) 14:46, 13 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Dangerously Low on Storage : Android

I was getting a notification when I woke up my Samsung Android that I was dangerously low on storage, and that this might affect the functioning of some apps. In fact, what it was affecting was that I couldn't receive new email from the Outlook server (so that the warning was correct, it was having a bad effect). I diddled around and uninstalled a few apps that I have not been using and deleted a few large downloaded PDFs, and now it is synching my email correctly. But I am not entirely sure what sort of storage I needed to free up, or how to free up storage in general if this happens again. First, does storage refer to the approximately 15 GB of non-volatile content, as contrasted with approximately 2GB of volatile content that is called memory? Second, is there a feature to view and free up storage other than by diddling and finding things to get rid of? Maybe this is a stupid question, so that maybe stupid answers can't hurt, because they will be just things to try that don't work. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:23, 13 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It refers to the 15GB of flash memory storage. It's the rough equivalent of HDD storage on a computer. There should be a breakdown of what apps use how much in Settings. 95.168.121.89 (talk) 18:57, 13 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

My Huawei (ssh, don't tell Trump) has an extra card in it, but most apps will only save to the system card. Result, I'm constantly running out of memory, yet have 90% of the second card free. It might be worth checking to see if something similar is happening. Martin of Sheffield (talk) 19:03, 13 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah good idea to purchase a micro SD card (if you don't already have one) and move PDFs, pictures, apps which allow it, etc. to the card. Be aware that like all flash storage (including internal phone storage) cards can and do fail catastrophically (in that data is completely unrecoverable). Backup your data every now and then. 95.168.121.89 (talk) 19:10, 13 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Some Android devices no longer support moving apps to the sdcard. It is a security issue and a performance issue. If you have plenty of data, lots of photos and videos and music, by all means use an sdcard. Mine is chronically underutilized. Elizium23 (talk) 22:45, 13 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Robert McClenon, I use Storage Analyzer and Disk Usage app to search and destroy unused files. There are also cleaning apps you can use, such as the companion to my Avast! Antivirus. When last I checked (Lollipop) Android storage was segmented; you have a section where the apps live and you have a section where the data lives. If you delete apps then you can make space for more apps, but you have to delete data to make space for more data.

Regarding your bugged Outlook client: try "Force Stop" and "Clear Data" which might remove all your local mail copies (you use IMAP right?) and then you can probably have a successful download again. Elizium23 (talk) 22:44, 13 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]