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

KevinH · 05-12-2016, 06:48 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, 03:45 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, 03:27 PM

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

2scre · 06-21-2023, 02:33 PM

Quote:

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.

Do you have to create empty folder for Windows 10/11 also? Or is this just a Mac problem?

Turtle91 · 06-21-2023, 02:42 PM

This thread is about 7 years old. Sigil allows you to create your Sigil saved folder location in places other than the default, but you shouldn’t need to. This was a problem for only a few people.
I personally changed the folder on my windows 10/11 machine years ago, but it was for other reasons; Nothing wrong with Sigil.

KevinH · 06-21-2023, 03:06 PM

And current Sigil version no longer uses temp/tmp files to store open epubs when working on them. It now defaults to storing them inside a folder inside your Sigil Preferences directory. This is true for all platforms.

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05-12-2016, 06:48 PM	#16
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 7,910 Karma: 5449552 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, 03:45 PM	#17
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 7,910 Karma: 5449552 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, 03:27 PM	#18
Peter Ahlstrom Connoisseur Posts: 75 Karma: 500000 Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Utah Device: iPad	That will be great. I hope other users find this to be a helpful feature!

06-21-2023, 02:42 PM	#20
Turtle91 A Hairy Wizard Posts: 3,142 Karma: 18843349 Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Charleston, SC today Device: iPhone 15/11/X/6/iPad 1,2,Air & Air Pro/Surface Pro/Kindle PW & Fire	This thread is about 7 years old. Sigil allows you to create your Sigil saved folder location in places other than the default, but you shouldn’t need to. This was a problem for only a few people. I personally changed the folder on my windows 10/11 machine years ago, but it was for other reasons; Nothing wrong with Sigil.

06-21-2023, 03:06 PM	#21
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 7,910 Karma: 5449552 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	And current Sigil version no longer uses temp/tmp files to store open epubs when working on them. It now defaults to storing them inside a folder inside your Sigil Preferences directory. This is true for all platforms.

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