Huge Quantity of Data Loss After "Save"

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I posted this problem to a Windows forum and only after spending hours 
searching for potential fixes realized that the issue was Sigil-related. 

Yesterday, working for 8+ hours on a Sigil document in Book view, I saved it, 
and then copied-and-pasted it, to another system on my network (a netbook). I 
edited the work on the netbook, saved the edit, and then copied-and-pasted the 
edited file, again on my network, to the system the file originated from 
(overwriting the saved file).

I then opened the file--and saw two paragraphs. The entire file (in the form of 
a Sigil "chapter") had vanished. I routinely copy-and-paste back-ups to Word 
before moving to work on another system. Yesterday was the first time I didn't. 
I won't go into the personal consequences of this loss but need to ask how a 
Sigil user can understand what about this sequence (if indeed anything about 
it) could have had such disastrous results. 

Thank you.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by HilaryJe...@gmail.com on 5 Sep 2013 at 10:28

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It's not really clear what happened.  What do you mean by copied-and-pasted - 
copied the text or copied the .epub file?

Once you edited the work on the network and saved - was that file ok?  If you 
open the file on the netbook is it still ok? If not, then it seems the editing 
on the netbook deleted the content.  Are you editing it in Sigil on the netbook?

When you say 'the entire file had vanished', do you mean the file (e.g. 
chapter1.html) was deleted and no longer in the Book Browser, or do you mean 
the contents of the file were shortened?

In Preferences->Options make sure Pretty Print Tidy is checked and not HTML 
Tidy.  In fact, uncheck the Clean on Open and Save buttons, and then open your 
problem epub - to see if anything is being cleaned/removed automatically.

Sigil also has a File->Save A Copy feature that allows you to save backups as 
you go to give you restore points.

Original comment by daveheil...@gmail.com on 5 Sep 2013 at 4:38

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I copied-and-pasted a Saved Sigil .epub file from a Windows XP netbook, through 
my home network, to my Windows 7 laptop. When I say "the entire file had 
vanished," I mean the chapter.html I was working on. (The other chapters were 
intact; holy God, I don't want to think of *that* one.) The file was not only 
shortened; I was left with two paragraphs out of what had been Saved as a 
chapter/file of at least 500 paragraphs. While I will try your suggestions, I 
am perplexed as to why a simple Save shouldn't have produced the same results.

Thank you.

Original comment by HilaryJe...@gmail.com on 5 Sep 2013 at 11:20

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Original comment by daveheil...@gmail.com on 11 Sep 2013 at 4:26

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