recovering Sigil configuration after disk died

dhdurgee · 11-07-2017, 10:49 AM

My linux mint rosa boot drive died and I needed to recreate my system. I was able to recover much of my configuration files, so I expected things to be working as they were after reinstalling Sigil.

I reinstalled Sigil from my copy of Sigil-0.8.6-Linux-x86_64.deb on my system. Surprisingly, when I start it I see 0.9.5 as the version number and it offered to update to an even later version. I also seem to have lost my plugin configuration.

Where are the Sigil configuration files stored? I see nothing in ~.config and there is no ~.sigil directory. I still have access to the degraded boot drive and can rescue many files from there. I would like to copy them over if possible and resume where I left off.

Dave

DiapDealer · 11-07-2017, 11:38 AM

It sounds like you have portions of the 0.9.5 version supplied by the standard repositories and my much older 0.8.6 standalone package. If you're seeing 0.9.5 in the about dialog, though, then that's certainly the version you're using.

If you launch Sigil and open the preferences dialog, you'll see a button that will open the preferences directory in a file browser. I don't remember the path exactly off the top of my head, but I know it starts with ~/.local.

If you want the latest version of Sigil (v0.9.8), I'd remove both the repo-supplied version and my older .deb version and use the standalone installer I created for 0.9.8. More info can be found here.

Doitsu · 11-07-2017, 12:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

I don't remember the path exactly off the top of my head, but I know it starts with ~/.local.

On my Linux machine the directory is:

Code:

~/.local/share/sigil-ebook/sigil/

11-07-2017, 10:49 AM	#1
dhdurgee Guru Posts: 906 Karma: 3000000 Join Date: Jun 2010 Device: K3W, PW4	recovering Sigil configuration after disk died My linux mint rosa boot drive died and I needed to recreate my system. I was able to recover much of my configuration files, so I expected things to be working as they were after reinstalling Sigil. I reinstalled Sigil from my copy of Sigil-0.8.6-Linux-x86_64.deb on my system. Surprisingly, when I start it I see 0.9.5 as the version number and it offered to update to an even later version. I also seem to have lost my plugin configuration. Where are the Sigil configuration files stored? I see nothing in ~.config and there is no ~.sigil directory. I still have access to the degraded boot drive and can rescue many files from there. I would like to copy them over if possible and resume where I left off. Dave

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11-07-2017, 11:38 AM	#2
DiapDealer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 28,557 Karma: 204127028 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD	It sounds like you have portions of the 0.9.5 version supplied by the standard repositories and my much older 0.8.6 standalone package. If you're seeing 0.9.5 in the about dialog, though, then that's certainly the version you're using. If you launch Sigil and open the preferences dialog, you'll see a button that will open the preferences directory in a file browser. I don't remember the path exactly off the top of my head, but I know it starts with ~/.local. If you want the latest version of Sigil (v0.9.8), I'd remove both the repo-supplied version and my older .deb version and use the standalone installer I created for 0.9.8. More info can be found here.

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