monForum I would remove your IP address and username from the above post m8:)

monforum, I suspect you have had vbspell previously installed on your forums. If so, you will need to reupload the old install script for the OLD vbspell and run the install script and choose UNINSTALL (the lower half). Once done, this will remove the duplicate entries in the database that the NEW vbspell product is objecting to. After that, you should be able to install the product.

Same error here.

Fresh install, latest version of the product.

Removed line, uninstalled, reinstalled, works.

Any news on this? Waiting to install on a 3.6.1.

Have you tried to manullay create the table in the database?

Dominic,

If you are referring to me, no. I'm afraid of a mod that I have to start by removing code lines and then manually installing databases.

I have just upgraded my board to 3.6.1. I had vbspell installed when it was 3.5.3. Curiously, it did not appear in my list of products, therefore could not be uninstalled.
I have a clean system, with all other products removed. I have carefully followed all the instructions and I get the identical problem that everyone here reports (gets to 99% then has the error "Duplicate entry 'vbspell_allow_all' for key 1").
Finding the old product, re-installing and then removing again does not sound like fun.
Can anyone give me a rough idea where I would start to manually remove the tables from the old sucker? I am guessing that there is simply a vbspell table somewhere in my SQL and I am thinking that if I can just find it, delete the whole thing, this will fix the problem. Am I on the right track? If so, could someone please get me started on how I would go about doing this?

I didn't have to reinstall the old vbspell, but actually only upload the install file and do the uninstall from there.

Well, I did that (I'd forgotten that there was a php script used rather than the xml file - no wonder it did not appear in my list of products.)

Once I'd copied the script to the admin dir, I ran it, clicked on the uninstall and watched it go through all the steps successfully, telling me it was deleting all the bits properly on the way.

I then installed the product using the xml, but now it just seems to freeze somewhere between 50% and 98% (slightly different each time). It never gets far enough to give an error or to get complete.

It did complete (with the error) before I had done the uninstall of the old by re-uploading the php script from the old version (v0.9.12 ? vbspell_install.php). I know this because although it did not work , it still appeared in my list of products (I have since uninstalled it from there in my latest attempts).

Regardless of what I do now, the xml install just freezes at a different part with no error messages each time. When it freezes, there are no error messages, but the browser just says "done" instead of "loading" suddenly then it stops - eg:

Seems to me that I am completely stuck now and at the point of just giving up on it. A shame as this is the only real spell check for VB. I really wish it could be just built in and use AJAX to work to do funky things like automatically underlining words that it found wrong like modern apps do, but I would be happy with this if it just worked :tired: .

Curious, are you uploading the dictionary.doc file? If you are, you may want to hold off on doing so and try installing it without that in place. I had no issues just installing it as a product (without the dictionary.doc) and then I inserted the sql manually. Before you go back and retry, however, you may want to go to your vbspell table and remove the contents (what was previously inserted) including the vbspell table itself.