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KevinH · 01-27-2023, 03:14 PM

Again this is a basic OS feature, not an application feature. MacOS handles this nicely if you tell it to.

FWIW, leaving Sigil open while shutting down or sleeping your machine for overly long periods of time (over a weekend or longer) while actively editing a file is a sure-fire way to mess up. Many OS's like Windows 10 and 11 and macOS will literally erase files that have not been modified recently from even deep inside their OS tmp folder even if a program is actively using them!

The best thing is to simply save the file and close Sigil.

Alternatively, find a safe spot where Sigil has write access and create a new Sigil specific temp folder (NOT inside system tmp) and use Sigil Preferences to set it. Then restart Sigil. With a new temp folder set, Sigil is safe from the OS messing with its files at all. Then you can safely let Sigil stay open and even ask your OS to restore open Windows on startup.

This is not going to change.

01-27-2023, 03:14 PM	#8
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 8,934 Karma: 6361444 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	Again this is a basic OS feature, not an application feature. MacOS handles this nicely if you tell it to. FWIW, leaving Sigil open while shutting down or sleeping your machine for overly long periods of time (over a weekend or longer) while actively editing a file is a sure-fire way to mess up. Many OS's like Windows 10 and 11 and macOS will literally erase files that have not been modified recently from even deep inside their OS tmp folder even if a program is actively using them! The best thing is to simply save the file and close Sigil. Alternatively, find a safe spot where Sigil has write access and create a new Sigil specific temp folder (NOT inside system tmp) and use Sigil Preferences to set it. Then restart Sigil. With a new temp folder set, Sigil is safe from the OS messing with its files at all. Then you can safely let Sigil stay open and even ask your OS to restore open Windows on startup. This is not going to change. Last edited by KevinH; 01-27-2023 at 03:38 PM.