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dlibke · 05-29-2019, 10:49 AM

Thank everyone for you responses. I found the location of Sigil's scratch folder, which has different paths on airBook vs iMac. Both /var as the root. I was not looking to edit any files in the folder (know better) but quickly deduced that the folder is created when Sigil opens as the OEBPS/Text files and their content was the same as in the editor., which was the same as in the ePub directory.

What happened according to my wife was that she save the book and watched the status bar to verified the file was saved but did not close Sigil thing that she might do some more writing before going to bed. The next morning not seeing the editor, she opened the ePub file in Sigil only to find her latest added text was not there. I was hoping to find a Sigil backup file that had the missing edits from the previous day so that I could copy the missing text and paste it into the code view.

I did note that although the 5/26 NAS file and the 5/28 airBook file end with the same sentence, the airBook file is larger than the NAS file by a number of kilobytes.

Is there some way/where I can find the missing text? Or does my wife have to reconstruct the missing text?

05-29-2019, 10:49 AM	#10
dlibke Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2016 Device: none	Thank everyone for you responses. I found the location of Sigil's scratch folder, which has different paths on airBook vs iMac. Both /var as the root. I was not looking to edit any files in the folder (know better) but quickly deduced that the folder is created when Sigil opens as the OEBPS/Text files and their content was the same as in the editor., which was the same as in the ePub directory. What happened according to my wife was that she save the book and watched the status bar to verified the file was saved but did not close Sigil thing that she might do some more writing before going to bed. The next morning not seeing the editor, she opened the ePub file in Sigil only to find her latest added text was not there. I was hoping to find a Sigil backup file that had the missing edits from the previous day so that I could copy the missing text and paste it into the code view. I did note that although the 5/26 NAS file and the 5/28 airBook file end with the same sentence, the airBook file is larger than the NAS file by a number of kilobytes. Is there some way/where I can find the missing text? Or does my wife have to reconstruct the missing text?