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KevinH · 10-30-2021, 07:09 PM

So Sigil works normally in a new folder that it has write and read permissions for.

That tells us it has nothing to do with Sigil "remembering" anything and everything to do with how certain paths on your system are being protected by something.

But by what? If not Controlled Folder, not Anti-virus, not Defender, not a rouge 3rd party system file extension, then what is preventing Sigil from reading and writing to where you tried to add things from originally that failed?

Please try repeating the test above but this time copy and paste your "test" folder to someplace inside the NEW location you were using for your testing that caused crashes earlier. Then repeat the test above but in step 3 try to save-as the untitled.epub to the parent folder now holding the "test" folder. And in step 4 try to addexisting from the new location of the "test" folder.

Did step 3 fail this time? If so did it have any good error message? Or did step 4 fail? And if so with a more informative message.

10-30-2021, 07:09 PM	#22
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 8,859 Karma: 6120478 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	So Sigil works normally in a new folder that it has write and read permissions for. That tells us it has nothing to do with Sigil "remembering" anything and everything to do with how certain paths on your system are being protected by something. But by what? If not Controlled Folder, not Anti-virus, not Defender, not a rouge 3rd party system file extension, then what is preventing Sigil from reading and writing to where you tried to add things from originally that failed? Please try repeating the test above but this time copy and paste your "test" folder to someplace inside the NEW location you were using for your testing that caused crashes earlier. Then repeat the test above but in step 3 try to save-as the untitled.epub to the parent folder now holding the "test" folder. And in step 4 try to addexisting from the new location of the "test" folder. Did step 3 fail this time? If so did it have any good error message? Or did step 4 fail? And if so with a more informative message. Last edited by KevinH; 10-30-2021 at 07:18 PM.