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No dictionary after upgrading to Sierra.  ...

I have rummaged the boards here and tried all manner of tips (preferences, open Dictionary folder, added keyboard, Search Dictionaries, quit and relaunch, turn off Wikipedia, research and relaunch, etc.)

Unfortunately, the Dictionary has gone missing!

Any ideas of what to do?!

1. Uninstall any non-Apple "cleaning" product that you may have installed.
2. Reinstall macOS: How to reinstall macOS - Apple Support

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Here's how I solved this. Note:  If you have a backup of your drive, there is absolutely no need to reinstall the entire OS, which is a Draconian recommendation -- incredibly time-consuming, and intolerably long!     (I had already seen the links given, too; plus read through scores of others here and elsewhere on line!)

I looked in my last Carbon Copy backup where my El Capitan resided.  The Dictionaries are inside the main Library folder.  Hence, under the Go menu, select Go to Folder, and type in /Volumes/Name-of-Your-Back-Up-Drive/Library/Dictionaries

Inside there, there are a bunch of dictionaries.  You can copy over the ones you want.  Over simply copy them all over to the Dictionaries folder inside your user Library folder on your main computer.

I found it easiest to do the following (this is working with the Carbon Copy Cloner backup drive):

1.  Go to /Volumes/Name-of-Your-Back-Up-Drive/Library

2.  Scroll to the Dictionaries folder.  Select it.

3.  Copy it to the desktop of your main drive (e.g., to the desktop of your MacBook Pro).  That way, you'll have it for safe-keeping for the future!

4.  Open up the folder and select the dictionaries you are interested in using.  I chose the New Oxford American Dictionary, Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus, Oxford Dictionary of English, Oxford Thesaurus of English, and the Apple Dictionary.

5.  Copy these to ~/Library/Dictionaries   (You can get there using the Go, Go to Folder, ~/Library trick.)

6.  Open up the Dictionary app.  (Might be on the dock, otherwise look in your Applications folder.)

7.  Under Preferences, check all the dictionaries you want to use.

8.  Drag them into the order you want the OS to search for definitions.  (Click and hold on a name and slide it up the list.)  In my case, I dragged New Oxford to the top and unchecked Wikipedia.  There's no reason to bog the system down or eat up battery life in online searches of Wikipedia.  You can always go to Wikipedia on your own when you want more historical information, etc.

9.  After that, you should be back in business!

10.  Please post any follow-up questions or suggested improvements to the directions!

Whew!  Apple certainly made this one much harder than it needed to be!  Indeed, it should have happened automatically.  Dictionary itself should have a menu command to "Download Missing Dictionaries", permitting users to do this easily with a graphical user interface!

The Dictionary app now loads individual dictionaries on demand. Just open Dictionary.app, go to Preferences, and check the dictionaries you want to use. The dictionaries you want will be downloaded and installed.

This is new behaviour in Sierra. You don't need to manually copy out-dated dictionaries from a backup.

If there is a problem with the automatic download and install of dictionaries, it would be better to investigate and fix the issue instead of hacking it.

Sorry, but that is simply incorrect!  My problem arose after I installed Sierra!

Prior OSs did this automatically and permitting the selection of dictionaries, but the upgrade to Sierra for many failed to install the dictionaries!

To solve it, required finding the old dictionarises and copying them in!

What is incorrect? Previous versions of the operating system came with a small number of dictionaries pre-installed. Over the years, Apple expanded the number of dictionaries available. Now, in Sierra, there is a very long list. All that is required is to check the requested dictionary and it will be downloaded and installed.

What you are proposing is, in fact, illegal. It is a violation of copyright and your license agreement.

@etresoft

is it possible that the native scroll behaviour in Sierra has also changed ?

I did not the see the scroll bar in the Dictionary preferences, so I presumed that they are only as much as I see in the window.

After having made a new Dictionaries folder and copying the Dictionaries from my Macmini , I still did not see them in the preference pane but I could see the new ones in Dictionary itself and when I scrolled it the scroll bar appeared at side !!!!

can someone confirm this behaviour. I had a new MBAir with Sierra pre-installed and no third party softwares.

Hello Pankajbhai Ahmedabadi,

Scroll bars have worked like that for some time now. Maybe 3 or 4 years?

"What is incorrect?!"

This:

"The Dictionary app now loads individual dictionaries on demand."

Many of us have discovered that *after* installing Sierra, there were NO dictionaries loaded.  There was no list of dictionaries that could be checked and installed.

By the way, I've been involved with copyright law for many years and simply taking a backed up dictionary that was supplied with the OS and putting into the right folder so that it appears in that list -- and can be selected and used -- is definitely NOT any violation of copyright!

Even on a practical level, it works like a charm!  And, it's a lot faster than a reinstallation of the entire OS!

could simplify the steps of instructions like this :

1.
Locate "Dictionaries" folder under Macintosh HD/Library/Dictionaries
from an earlier backup, or another mac running an older macos.

2.
Copy onto a USB stick

3.
launch "Dictionary" app in mac running Sierra.

4.
on the app's menu, go to File / Open dictionaries folder

5.

drag and drop you old listed dictionaries from your USB

6.

Relaunch dictionary app, and open preferences, and you'll see all of them listed there.

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