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KevinH · 05-11-2016, 02:53 PM

Hi Peter,
Thanks for checking. And yes, if you left Sigil running with an epub loaded, long enough (ie over a weekend) then Mac OSX dirhelper can and will delete any files that ave not been updated within 3 days.

So leaving Sigil open and running over a weekend on Mac OS X will result in exactly the behaviour you are seeing. Missing files, etc.

So that is probably what you are seeing. It would be better to do a save-as and exit Sigil if you plan on leaving it for more than a day or two (at least on Mac OS X). Not sure how linux or Windows handles cleanup of temp files when a user does not reboot and keeps the program running over multiple day periods.

They must have some mechanism to clean up.

Thanks for checking that for me.

KevinH

05-11-2016, 02:53 PM	#8
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 8,439 Karma: 5702578 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	Hi Peter, Thanks for checking. And yes, if you left Sigil running with an epub loaded, long enough (ie over a weekend) then Mac OSX dirhelper can and will delete any files that ave not been updated within 3 days. So leaving Sigil open and running over a weekend on Mac OS X will result in exactly the behaviour you are seeing. Missing files, etc. So that is probably what you are seeing. It would be better to do a save-as and exit Sigil if you plan on leaving it for more than a day or two (at least on Mac OS X). Not sure how linux or Windows handles cleanup of temp files when a user does not reboot and keeps the program running over multiple day periods. They must have some mechanism to clean up. Thanks for checking that for me. KevinH