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Originally Posted by danshand84
I'm only connected to DropBox. For firewall I'm running Microsoft windows essentials, and using Windows firewall. I'm running Windows 7 64 bit and just upgraded it, but nothing else is acting weird so far.
I don't remember Sigil running crazy like the before, but I see from your comment I am running an older version.
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There's something really not right here. I run Sigil (several versions) and I run win7 64-b8it, w/o any issues. I have thousands of ePUB files on my computer, without any issues remotely akin to this. On the other hand, I don't try to make the fundamental ePUB file act like an annotated file in a reader, by using tons of inline CSS.
I suspect what may have happened here--at some point--is that you tried to use inline CSS to annotate something, and Tidy ate it. From the point of the error forward, it's entirely possible that the file would have been corrupted. (The NEW file, not the file you had previously, of course). If you erroneously told it to either, "clean the file automatically" or saved it with those changes, you could have big issues. If/when I get that prompt, I close the file w/o saving, so as not to save whatever I bollixed up, because, don't misunderstand, when this happens, 99% of the time, it's "operator error." In other words, your HTML is bollixed, and it crashes the file.
If you have your files synched to dropbox, simply go to the dropbox website and pickup the previous version of the file. Heavens knows, I've done this often enough. You may also wish to get in the habit of opening a file in Sigil, do a "save as" or "save a copy" and use a working version of the file for your changes. It's how I do it, much to the endless annoyance of my crews*. But it's saved me more than once from my own inept typing.
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*My bookmakers, designers, etc., all have dropboxes for their work that are shared with me. Actually, I have the main "dropbox" and all their dropboxes are in directories inside of mine, as it were. When I'm tweaking any of their files, they "see" me as I'm changing things around in their dropboxes, moving things, etc. Naturally, when you see someone playing around in your knickers, it's a bit odd. But, as I said, it's been quite useful to always work in a working copy of the file, not the "source," to play with words a bit. ;-)
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You should be able to salvage the older, uncorrupted file from your Dropbox storate, I should think. Would you let us know? We really do all feel your pain, if you lost a file completely.
You may wish to look at Azardi, or one of those. They may have more advanced note-taking features, for your ePUBs. I don't know that factually, but I've seen some HTML5/ePUB3/CSS3 stuff with those readers that looks fairly cool for personal use.
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