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Persistence : opened files are not remembered
On iPad OS 26.1, I usually leave my work files opened in textastic in multiple windows and it was about fine until recently where it’s common for the files to be closed / empty after a while.
It would be nice to have more persistence of opened files, I suspect iPad OS being more agressive on memory usage lately could explain that ?
I work with a lot of opened apps and external screen / stage manager : I try to keep textastic windows and blinkshell in a stage, files are remote (through shellfish) and textastic up to date (10.8.3)
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Without seeing what you are doing exactly, it's hard to tell what might be going on.
Are you sure you are not closing the window accidentally or opening a new, empty window?
For example, if you use the red X button, the window is closed and opened files are not restored when opening Textastic again. In this case, a new window is created when returning to Textastic.
What happens if you show the context menu of Textastic's app icon (right click or tap and hold) and select "Show All Windows"? (You can also use Window > Show All Windows in the iPadOS menu bar).
"Show All Windows" shows all windows that can be restored.
Does it maybe show the window with the files you are looking for?
If the window with the files is indeed gone and you can reproduce the issue, it would be great if you could send me a screen recording video.
windows are still there, at their positions within the stage. Files are closed, they are seen in the « recent files » but no longer opened
Thanks for the screenshot.
So it happens on an external monitor and when you switch from one stage back to the stage which contains Textastic's windows?
I'll try to reproduce it. If you can tell me specific steps that cause the problem, that would be helpful.
That said, I haven't changed anything regarding window restoration recently and Apple is currently changing a lot regarding multitasking, so this might just be a bug in iPadOS 26.
I've spent the last hour trying to reproduce the issue:
No matter what I did (changing stages, opening new windows, forcing memory pressure), the two files stayed open for me.
So if you have specific cases that trigger the problem, please let me know. For now I could not reproduce the issue, sorry.