Hi, Bill--

> whenever I lose all of the open windows -- which are always the same set of 
> 48 or so windows -- I can...

Would a folder of aliases suffice?

--Gil

> On Mar 17, 2021, at 5:26 AM, Bill Kochman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> In my daily workflow, I always have about four dozen windows open in the 
> "Windows" palette on the far right side of my screen using the Window -> 
> Palettes -> Windows option in the BBEdit menubar.
> 
> However, one rather annoying thing that happens is that sometimes when my 
> computer is forced to reboot itself for whatever the reason, after it 
> reboots, and BBEdit automatically relaunches itself -- being as it was open 
> before the forced machine reboot occurred -- most of the windows I had open 
> in the "Windows" palette are gone.
> 
> That means that I need to find all of those four dozen or so documents on my 
> hard drive and manually reopen them again. It doesn't take too long to do 
> this, being as I have done this enough times to remember which documents were 
> open, and where they are located, but it would be nice if there was an easier 
> way to reopen all of these windows in one shot.
> 
> Please note that when my iMac is forced to reboot itself, when BBEdit does 
> relaunch, it does ask me if I want to reopen the docs that were previously 
> open. However, as I said, if I say "yes", only a few of the four dozen 
> windows are listed in the "Windows" palette.
> 
> So, I thought to myself, "Surely there must be a ".savedState" file or 
> something somewhere in BBEdit's support files which maintains a list of all 
> open windows." I looked in ~Library/Saved Application State, as well as in 
> other places, but I was unable to locate a support file where this list of 
> open windows in the "Windows" palette might be found.
> 
> My intent here to simply make a backup of this particular file and keep it on 
> my desktop. That way, whenever I lose all of the open windows -- which are 
> always the same set of 48 or so windows -- I can just drop a copy of this 
> file into wherever it belongs in BBEdit's support file hierarchy.
> 
> So my question is, where is this file located, and what is it called?
> 
> I hope the above was easy enough to understand.
> 
> Thanks in advance to anyone who may choose to respond.
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> Bill Kochman, Administrator
> Bill’s Bible Basics / Christian Social Network
> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> https://www.billkochman.com
> https://www.csnet.live
> 
> 
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