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[Phillip Eaton]

I seached this forum and found several messages referencing this problem up to around 2013.

I was experiencing this in v6.5 and it appears the problem is still around in 8.16.0 I'm now using.

Any chance of a fix?

(I'm still seeing several bug reports for v9.x so I haven't upgraded yet.)

Thanks!

[AmigoJack]

It would drastically help to reconstruct that behavior step by step. You experienced this often enough, yet no pattern emerges on how and when this occurs?

[Phillip Eaton]

I can't pinpoint a pattern off the top of my head, but it might be when I modify other settings, such as keyboard mappings.

Alternatively, it might be after the OS does a force-close on the app, e.g. for a Windows Update reboot.

Something that doesn't help highlight the issue is that I rarely close the editor, I just leave it open and put the PC on standby overnight, so I make changes to the config that cause the issue to happen, but I might not notice it for another week or two.

Nonetheless, I think the editor has been restarted when the docking checkboxes become unchecked.

I'll keep an eye on it and try to connect what was changed before the checkboxes change.

[bbadmin]

Most changes to settings are only persisted when TextPad closes. It may not have time to do that when Windows reboots. Could that be the reason?

[Phillip Eaton]

That's good information to know, though I doubt it's that, I reckon I've manually restarted Textpad enough times to get the setting locked in. I'll bear it in mind.

One scenario I thought of that might contribute; I set my command line git config to use Textpad instead of the default editor and that always runs up a separate instance of Textpad, even though I've configured Textpad to run in a single instance only.

[Phillip Eaton]

This problem has never gone away for me.

Now it would seem that the program is not saving the rogue setting at all!

Here's a video of it happening:
https://youtu.be/eYFi7qKgRbs

If you would like me to do any tests, I am happy to.

Thanks for reading.