SessionRestore stopped saving sessions 3 days ago

SweetP

Here is a Beta build which I hope fixes this issue:
https://sweetpproductions.com/products/sessionrestore/SessionRestoreBeta.zip

Please backup your sessions first!

rhawk301

@SweetP This beta is removed (404) now. Was it a version before 2.6.8 released? Or something newer? I Would like to test it out, yes, because I even installed manually and back through the store and it still does not work.

If there is a logfile for further debugging I can turn on? Perhaps when SR is activated, it can tell me why it fails to add the session to the backup.

Thanks.

SweetP

@rhawk301 I released the beta as version 2.6.8

SweetP

Ive just released v2.6.9 (App Store version still needs to be reviewed) can you let me know if that works better

rhawk301

@SweetP So it must have worked, yay! Over the weekend my Mac updated your extension to 2.7 automatically and I am now storing auto-save sessions. Thanks again!

rhawk301

@SweetP Well, it DID work. I Then clicked on the "manual save" button and SessionRestore itself crashed, and will not re-start. I noticed that I am running that newer 2.7 version and it briefly said grabbing iCloud Sessions data. I assume that means its saving sessions to the cloud now?

So interesting enough, I have up-to-date sessions saved today, but the program itself now crashes on start. Please advise.

SweetP

@rhawk301 v2.7.2 is the latest version. Could you try updating

rhawk301

@SweetP ok, and the verdict is….YAY! It loads again.
I started SR and fine, loaded Safari, it immediately loaded iCloud data, fine. Then I saved session from both the app, and Safari, and still fine.
So it checks out.

SweetP

@rhawk301 great!
finally

cbrannon

@SweetP It seems to be working for me, too. Thanks! Such a huge relief.

I'm curious what the issue was.

--Chris

SweetP

@cbrannon a bunch of things.
When I wrote SessionRestore, I had to write some of the code in Objective C, as the Swift calls weren't working for some reason. I rewrote that code in Swift (SessionRestore is written in Swift) as it started causing crashing now for some reason.

I added some more checks to help make the Autosave timer more reliable.

And finally, I added code to clear duplicate iCloud sessions, which was maybe causing memory issues and crashing.

big

SessionRestore 2.7.3 only seldom saves sessions for me. Last save was about 23 hours ago. The time before that, about 8 hours earlier. Granted, this is under Mojave so the situation may be different than other reports. Please let me know if there's something you'd like me to do to help track it down if Mojave is still supported.

SweetP

@big SessionRestore will only save sessions when Safari is the active app. So if you have it open but sitting in the background it won't save, but it should pick up where it left off and start saving again when you activate Safari.

big

@SweetP Thanks, Russell. Unfortunately, I can leave Safari upfront for hours yet the session won't save. It's been over 22 hours since the last save. I'll try not to restart anything in case there's info you need.

big

@SweetP A session was just saved, 24 hours and 5 minutes since the last one!

SweetP

@big hmm, hopefully it starts saving correctly again for you

big

@SweetP I would say it's better. I'm not keeping track of time Safari is up front but sometimes I just leave the Safari screen up for an hour or two yet nothing is saved. So it's unpredictable but, yes, I AM getting occasional saves, which is probably sufficient.

Perhaps when a screen saver kicks in Safari no longer is seen as active?