RichardH

I reviewed that part of the code yesterday and both should work correctly (as the preferences from the database are loaded last), but it's definitely a good idea to try both. Something unexpected is happening on this device, so if you notice anything unusual, please report. Richard. On Sunday, August 30th, 2026 at 8:53 PM, MrMe saysme@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Hi Donald, I'm not sure if Green vs. Registry install will make a difference. I would try pwsafe64-3.72.2pre5.exe as green install first...

Your screenshot seems to have been lost in space, could you repost it?

These 4 devices share the same code handling reading/writing databases (and preferences stored in there), double-checked all paths, so unfortunately no clue yet. The experiment with the new database is definitely useful, so please give that a try. If that doesn't resolve it, useful information to continue investigating this would be Any steps that make the issue reoccur, if it's reproducible it's usually easy to fix Recording the "Using application" from the database properties immediately after...

Do you use your safe only on your Dell laptop, or also on other devices (either desktop or mobile)? If also on other devices, what kind of device?

Pretty sure the answer is "No" here. For one, there will very likely be excess sectors in the final cluster used by the MFT, Bitmap, other metadata... that are never written to, so these will forever contain the original data before you created the container. You can align the files used for filling to cluster boundary, but you can't force the filesystem to do the same for metadata. That's just one example, there are probably more.

That would be valuable input, yes. In the meantime, I advise to add a new entry "Options Probe" to your current database (after verifying that the options are ok). Whenever the issue re-occurs, check if this "Options Probe" entry still exists. That will exclude the possibility of a stale database on your system.

The "Lock on Minimize" option is interesting, that one is not stored in the database. It's application-scoped.

Glad I could help. For the record: this is not Mac specific, the same holds for other platforms.