having "skip saving settings on shutdown" ticked or not does stop the settings being overwritten by the defaults

i'm trying, via a bat file at startup; replacing the existing ini file with a copy that has my settings

this seemed to work when the ini had been overwritten

i'll let you know how this goes

So far the process of restoring the ini file and manually starting SSC has proved to be a successful workaround for the ini file being reset to the default.

I hope this helps in the troubleshooting of the issue.

BTW as per earlier shouldn't the ini files be placed in a subfolder (DonationCoder\AppName\) of the specified folder? not in the specified folder?