Quote:
Originally Posted by Toxaris
That is why you should never trust auto cleanup and always take care of your S&R. It can go horribly wrong.
|
Actually...
This has happened to me. And damned if I know why. I don't believe I was S&R'ing, but...I was working on a file, very short, simple. After I had finished it, I split it into its designated "chapters." For reasons I can't quite fathom, (and, yes: Tidy is never turned on), when I tried to go to BookView, I got an "unresolved error" warning, and then...kablammo, the file was truncated. Content simply disappeared, ala Ye Olden PSO'D (Ye Olden Pink Screen O'Death, for you noobs). I was pretty gobsmacked. And, yes, I then had unresolved links in the ncx, because of course, content had gone MIA.
My comprehension of what happened was that somehow, after doing a simple s&R (not regex), an element did not have a closing tag. When I attempted to go to bookview, I got the error, and the inquiry "clean it or do it manually?" I said manually, but when I got the file "back," half of it was simply GONE, with the big honking pink error message.
I replaced the original (not altered) html content from the source file (pre-sigil) and repaired it the long way round, but honestly--still not quite sure what made it go "hinky." (Wombat: bad, smelly, something rotten. Twisted. ="Hinky.") I stared at it for a while, but never did figure out what made it go bats**t. This happened about 3 times in a row, and I don't know what triggered it, other than an unclosed element that I could not find, but, more importantly, that
I was not able to fix manually. When I chose "fix manually," the content had been "cleaned." (And had disappeared).
But Tidy is OFF. 
So, yes: I've had the PSO'D again, now in the latest version of Sigil. Win7, running the 32-bit version, as there isn't one for those of us with 64.
Hitch