Allow 'other' files in the project directory / failure to launch

[calyxa]

I was excited to learn about the option to not save everything in a single .msk file and instead have a bunch of files inside a directory named the same as one's project.

I promptly saved my timeline spreadsheet into that subfolder...

And then the next time I tried to launch Manuskript, it silently failed... (I've heard a rumor about a log file? Where do I find that? Thanks!)

Perhaps a sub-directory named "UserFiles" or something which can be ignored by the app on launch, but can be a safe place to store related project files from other apps?

That the failure to launch was completely silent is a bit of a problem, too. I'd rebooted my machine before remembering the thing about where I'd filed that spreadsheet doc.

[TheJackiMonster]

I'd recommend not to save any files into the folder created by Manuskript to store data since I'm still working on properly replacing the most code handling files with something more reliable. Theoretically the expected behavior is that files not connected to your Manuskript project should be ignored. But it's not implemented like that in all cases currently. I think there have been similar issues in the past that Manuskript deleted image files stored in that folder during save-process.

[Ketrel]

Is this storage method referencing a feature in a dev version vs the release or am I just missing where it is? I was actually coming here request that exact feature until I saw the topic of this one.

[calyxa]

It's in Settings, General, last option in the Saving section, checkbox for 'Save to one single file'. It's on by default, if you turn it off, it'll create a directory with the same name as your project.

But don't file any extra files in there!

[TheJackiMonster]

I think PR #788 is connected to this issue. Maybe a proper solution can be found to this issue so that we don't need to add each file extension to allow existing in the project folder individually.