Data loss in 0.9.5 on OS X (El Capitan) - Page 2

KevinH · 05-12-2016, 07:48 PM

The SIP is one of the reasons I stick with Yosemite and because if I upgrade XCode, I will have to stop building Sigil for OSX 10.9 and maybe even 10.10. Why they drop recent OSX versions from support in XCode/ headers is beyond me. That is another thing Apple has done wrong.

Their policy on temp files is truly absurd.

KevinH · 05-14-2016, 04:45 PM

Hi Peter,

I have just now added a feature to master that will allow the user to set his or her own temporary folder in the General Settings Preference. You should be able to create a writable empty folder someplace out of the way on your machine then set Sigil to use that for all of its scratch space and temporary storage. Since this directory would be under your control in your own home folder someplace, Mac OS X's dirhelper should never touch it or clean it. That means you should be able to leave Sigil open as long as you want. It also means you should manually clean it if Sigil ever crashes (otherwise Sigil will clean up after itself nicely).

This feature has the added benefit of allowing a more advanced user to more easily attempt to recover as least some of the changes made in the event of a crash by looking at what the current state of the ebook was in disk at the time of any crash.

It should appear in the upcoming Sigil-0.9.6 release.

Hope this helps,

KevinH

Peter Ahlstrom · 05-17-2016, 04:27 PM

That will be great. I hope other users find this to be a helpful feature!

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05-12-2016, 07:48 PM	#16
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 5,929 Karma: 4217884 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	The SIP is one of the reasons I stick with Yosemite and because if I upgrade XCode, I will have to stop building Sigil for OSX 10.9 and maybe even 10.10. Why they drop recent OSX versions from support in XCode/ headers is beyond me. That is another thing Apple has done wrong. Their policy on temp files is truly absurd.

05-14-2016, 04:45 PM	#17
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 5,929 Karma: 4217884 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	Hi Peter, I have just now added a feature to master that will allow the user to set his or her own temporary folder in the General Settings Preference. You should be able to create a writable empty folder someplace out of the way on your machine then set Sigil to use that for all of its scratch space and temporary storage. Since this directory would be under your control in your own home folder someplace, Mac OS X's dirhelper should never touch it or clean it. That means you should be able to leave Sigil open as long as you want. It also means you should manually clean it if Sigil ever crashes (otherwise Sigil will clean up after itself nicely). This feature has the added benefit of allowing a more advanced user to more easily attempt to recover as least some of the changes made in the event of a crash by looking at what the current state of the ebook was in disk at the time of any crash. It should appear in the upcoming Sigil-0.9.6 release. Hope this helps, KevinH

05-17-2016, 04:27 PM	#18
Peter Ahlstrom Connoisseur Posts: 59 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2011 Device: iPad	That will be great. I hope other users find this to be a helpful feature!