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Originally Posted by KevinH
No. On MacOS the *unpacked* application is always called "Sigil.app" and nothing else. Perhaps your unpacking routine is wrapping it all in a folder?
Yes after unpacking you should drag and drop the unpacked Sigil.app into your /Applications folder. It will ask you if you want to replace any earlier version.
Then fire up Sigil.app from your Applications folder by double-clicking. Once launched properly you should already see its icon in your dock. You can just drag and drop that running dock icon to a permanent spot in the dock. No need to copy anything.
Sigil.app on macOS is a fully relocatable app. That means you can really rename it as you like (ie add version to name) and move it anyplace you like (not just stay in Applications) but you can NOT have 2 different versions Sigil of the Sigil.app running at the exact same time. You can of course open multiple Main Windows in the one running Sigil.app.
I have many many different versions of Sigil.app stored in different folders on my mac and can run them in place (one ar a time) so that I can debug issues more easily. So keeping older versions around is easy.
And yes you must look at the top menu bar to see if Sigil is still active, and use that top menubar menus to open a file or to CMD-Q to exit out of Sigil completely. Closing the MainWindow will NOT exit out of Sigil.
This ia how multi-main window apps has always worked on macOS (think Microsoft Word, etc ).
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Thanks for those tips. I'm still learning on Apple (but not necessarily liking) and it was the user guide that told me to drag an app to the Dock.
I have spent a little time trying to understand why I got that new blank window with just Sigil on the menu bar. Because I use Dropbox with several apps, I have a rule never to use the red dot when finished with an app but always to use Quit or Cmd-Q to shut it down. I must have inadvertently clicked red and parked Sigil on that occasion. I can reproduce that behaviour by clicking the red dot so that shouldn't happen again.