[Gretl-users] A possible bug in gretl when there are multiple instance working at the same time.

Hi Allin, Thanks for all the great work that you’ve been doing. There seems to be a bug when there are multiple instance of gretl working at the same time. The versos of gretl I’m working on is 2020c-git built date 2020-05-29. Here is a description of the problem that I’m facing: Whenever I have more than one instance of gretl open, and if I closed one of them, then I’m not able to save the .gretl season file that I have created before. The pattern of the error message is like: “.myfile/session.xml: No such file or directory”. Other times, I get "Unspecified error” when trying to save a session file. After a few cased like this, by trial and error, I found that if I start another instance of gretl, and then open the very same .gretl dataset that I was not able to save before, I can now switch back to the old gretl instance and save the session file that I was working on. To make your job a bit easier, I created the following test steps that you should be able to replicate (at least I can on my Mac): Quit all instance of gretl Open gretl Open the built-in sample file in gretl “banks91”, for example, Open icon view Open Notes Type in any text Save Notes Save session file as “banks91_test” for example. Open anther instance of gretl Open another built-in sample file “credscore”, for example, Open icon view Open Notes Type in any text Save Notes Save session file Quit gretl Get back to the session with “banks91” Open the Notes in icon view, Here, if I delete the text in the Notes, I get an error that says: "Buffer is empty”. If I make changes to the text, I’m able to save the Notes. But now I’m not able to save the session file. The error message reads: ".banks91_test/session.xml: No such file or directory” My solution is: Open another instance of gretl, Open the session file “banks91_test” that I saved earlier Do nothing here. Switch back to the first session on the same file what I wasn’t able to save before This time I’m able to save the session file. I have other minor issues, too, but that is all for now. Best, Fred