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Have you tried putting aptspell.xml in the Arbortext-path\custom\dictionaries subdirectory?
From help: The custom\dictionaries path is automatically prepended to the dictionaries path at startup. Putting your user-defined dictionaries in the custom\dictionaries subdirectory makes them automatically available, avoiding manual steps to add them to the path.