[Tex2002ans]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Unless one of them is a portable version (or you set an environment variable to relocate the prefs directory for 0.9.6), they should share the exact same prefs directory. Which means the same sigil_clips.ini.

Both versions are just the normal EXEs that were released whenever, just installed to two different folders:

C:\Program Files\Sigil
C:\Program Files\Sigil096

Also, this problem definitely never occurred when I just had Sigil 0.8.6 installed.

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

How do you typically launch Sigil/open epubs? Do you click a Sigil shortcut and browse for an epub to open? Or do you double-click an epub and rely on file associations to open the file with Sigil?

I have the folder open in Explorer + double-click the EPUBs to open them.

Sigil 0.9.6 is the default program to open EPUBs.

This disappearing Clips problem occurs only when I open the second/third instances of EPUBs in Sigil. (I typically open up a previous EPUB to copy/paste some CSS from it, or see how I coded a certain thing).

I haven't tried opening an instance of Sigil directly... but I might have to try that out and see if I can get the Clips to still disappear.

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

What about calibre's "Open With" plugin?

I installed the plugin. By default, that says it will open up EPUBs using the Sigil 0.8.6 install.

But when I get this error, it is with multiple instances of Sigil 0.9.6 (I don't ever have both versions open at the same time).

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Is your clip collection quite extensive, out of curiosity? Just wondering if it's maybe a size-related thing.

4.38 KBs.

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

I guess it's possible that there's a condition where Sigil launches, but the clips ini is unavailable while everything's loading.

Hmmm... would Sigil lock itself out of opening the Clips file if it was loading multiple EPUBs at the same time?

I have been working on a few massive EPUBs that take a while to open. Could one instance of Sigil be locking the other one from opening the .ini?

Saved Searches all still seem to be there, and all other preferences seem to carry over fine.* (Although again, I haven't looked super-in-depth when the error occurs).

Originally Posted by Mister L

Most of the time it seems to depend on whether the file was originally created with the latest version, but earlier today I was working on a new file which had the clips, then I opened an older file next to it to check something and my new file lost the clips (they had been there previously).

I personally have found no correlation between which version of Sigil/Calibre created the file initially and this bug. It happens in Sigil 0.9.6 with any and all EPUBs (super old, super new, whatever). The only thing is multiple instances being open at once.