[Mister L]

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. Possibly some antivirus or antispyware program that's locking the ini file so Sigil can't access it. That's just a guess at the moment. I haven't been able to make it happen myself, yet.

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

My sigil_clips.ini is 5ko. I also have a lot of personalised Saved Searches (sigil_searches.ini = 7ko) but I've never noticed the searches go missing (although I haven't thought to check wh.

Originally Posted by Toxaris

While reading this thread I remember having this sometimes as well, but only when I have multiple ePUB's open in different Sigil instances. The first instance always have the clips, the subsequent Sigil instances not always (never?). If I close all instances and just open a new/old ePUB, I have the clips again. So, it might be a locking issue.

I have had the clips disappear on an instance that had them just previously, however I am 99% sure it's always when I have more than one instance open. I don't think it's a problem at the initial launch but maybe when a new instance is launched the clips are momentarily unavailable for other instances. The locking issue sounds plausible to me.

Originally Posted by Tex2002ans

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.

I confirm, this problem is recent. Also I checked my program files, I had 3 previous versions of Sigil still installed along with the current one (none portable, but in different directories like Tex2002ans), but all of their preferences locations pointed to the same directory (and my file associations point to the latest version so I haven't used any previous versions lately).

Originally Posted by Tex2002ans

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).


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).


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.

Just did an experiment:

Working on one file, clips are there.

- Without closing 1st instance, open a 2nd epub. Clips still there for both.
- Open a 3rd file: clips disappeared from the first and second files but are there on the 3rd one.
- Close 3rd and 2nd file: clips came back on the first file.
- Open 2nd and 3rd files again: clips disappeared on 1st and 2nd files but are there on 3rd.
- Closed 3rd and 2nd, clips still missing on 1st instance.
- Saved searches are all there, nothing else seems to have changed.

- Had to close and open again my original file to restore the clips but they are back now.


These are all recent files so I also now think this problem is linked to the number of instances open and not to do with the version used to created the files.