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Old 02-04-2026, 05:37 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by Doitsu View Post
I wasn't able to reproduce the problem on my Windows 11 machine.

AFAIK, the default preferences folder is:

Code:
%localappdata%\sigil-ebook\sigil
or
Code:
C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\sigil-ebook\sigil
where <user> is your actual user name. Did you maybe create a symbolic link to the folder that you mentioned?

Also what happens if you press WIN+R, paste the following path into the Run box and hit Enter:

Code:
%localappdata%\sigil-ebook\sigil
First, let me humbly apologise for my error in the path in my original post - when correcting the '/' to '\' for Windows, I pasted in a part of the Linux path.

I confirm that my preferences location on the Windows box is:
C:\Users\pnj\AppData\Local\sigil-ebook\sigil

It seems that the problems are down to my machine. It was a W10 box which I upgraded to W11 last summer. I only use it occasionally when I need a couple of applications which don't run well on linux - and when I'm in W11, I'll sometimes use Sigil (which happened today).

I've never, as far as I can recall, ever set any environment variables.

When I press WIN+R & paste the following
Code:
%localappdata%\sigil-ebook\sigil
into the Run box and hit Enter: it correctly opens the preferences location.


So do I conclude that there is something wrong with my Sigil installation?

Afterthought: I recall sometime ago that when I tried to update KDP Previewer3, I got a message saying the upgrade wouldn't work with some mention, IIRC, of inability to find something related to QT. My fix then was simply to delete the old Previewer and make a new installation of the latest version.

Last edited by philja; 02-04-2026 at 05:42 PM.
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