[Hitch]

Originally Posted by un_pogaz

The problem with KevinH's method is that it assumes that we know before opening the ePub that his <manifest> is broken.
This is the real problem.
Afterwards we can still trim the work with Quality Check, but once we have made this list, we must check ALL the library for each addition of books.
Personally, I use Sigil a lot to reorganize the content of the ePub (when I have to rework a lot of images inside, Open > Save > Ectract to Folder > Edits images > Return images in the ePub), so a false manipulation is quick to happen.

I have to admit, in ten years, I've never--never--encountered this issue, FWIW.

DiapDealer, this new formulation of why Sigil remove the non-indexed elements is clearer than the first one given earlier.

I don't think that anyone here is lacking clarity on what you've requested, but it's still your request and your issue, created, apparently, by your workflow. Perhaps you should consider reviewing your workflow, if you frequently somehow end up with unmanifested items? How DOES that happen to you, anyway?

You didn't want to take of this feature and I understand, it was marginal and there are probably other more urgent and useful features.
Especially if we have to review all the mechanisms for opening and extracting files... yeah, I understand that this is going to be tricky.

The problem is now known, added it in the bug tracker in "low priority/very difficult to solve" is all I asked for.

Have a good day.

Yes, IF it were a bug, but it's not. It's how it's designed.

Look, if you run into this issue often, why not do what 3 or 4 of us have already said? Open the thing in Calibre, and manifest any mystery items. THEN put it into Sigil.

Or, as Kevin has mentioned--twice now--unzip the ePUB outside of Sigil. Open the file in Sigil, and ADD any items you need to. MANY of us work this way, to add things to an ePUB file that we need, for whatever reason.

I think that maybe, maybe, I've seen one other person here, since I joined something like 9 years ago, mention something about Sigil eating unmanifested files. Of course, my memory could just be wrong. If this happens to you often, or if your workflow creates unmanifested items, just use Calibre to get them manifested. It's the work of 2 minutes to do. It seems, quite bluntly, that you're asking Diap and Kev to put in a crapload of work, to create a function that, to the best of my memory, no one else has ever requested.

Given that this is volunteer-supported software, IMHO, they need to focus on those things that a) they know require time and effort, to maintain it and b) those things requested by the most people, (aside from the endless "make it like a word processor!" requests).

I'm sorry, and I don't mean to get sideways with you here, but afaik, it's NOT a bug. Putting it on the bug tracker implies it is, when it is not. Seriously, if this were happening to me often, I'd take a moment and look at my workflow, and figure out WHY it's happening, and address that.

Hitch