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Originally Posted by Domenick
and I set the MSDOS environment variable SIGIL_DEFAULT_TEMP_FOLDER to the same directory.
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That step serves no purpose (though it shouldn't hurt anything). Sigil doesn't use any en var to define its scratch directory location.
<SIGIL_DEFAULT_TEMP_HOME> is just a placeholder we display in Sigil's preferences to mask the location of the default directory from neophytes. For whatever reason, people who didn't know what they were doing felt it was OK to meddle with Sigil temp files while Sigil had them locked. <SIGIL_DEFAULT_TEMP_HOME> was simply a step to discourage that a bit. It's not an environment variable.
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Originally Posted by Domenick
It seems to me something must have persisted across 1.7, the uninstall, and into 1.8 because when attempting to add existing files in 1.7 and 1.8 it always came up in the previous manuscript's folder.
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Like I said: it's the crash that's preventing the previous manuscript's directory from becoming the new default the next time. We have to figure out why it's crashing and the default folder thing will take care of itself.
Does the crash happen when trying to add ANY file from the location you were previously using. What I'm getting at is; have you ruled out the actual file that's being added as the problem? If other files (or other file types) load without crashing, is it possible there's something about the
content of the files you're trying to add that's causing the crash, rather than their location?