ThorstenB wrote:

> Speculating: what may have happened is that you had an invalid path in 
> your scenery [...] directory list,

Yes, this is the case. I'm using various directories for Scenery
testing and not all of them are filled with Scenery all the time.

> [...] fgfs first 
> reads "preferences.xml", which enables "save-on-exit" by default. Then 
> it starts evaluating the command-line parameters one by one. Finding the 
> invalid scenery or aircraft path, it was exiting immediately (due to an 
> error, which has been fixed already), and never got to evaluate the rest 
> of the command-line, so "save-on-exit" remained enabled. May not have 
> happened if --disable-save-on-exit first was first in the command-line...

It was. Anyhow, many thanks for this excellent explanation !

        Martin.
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