I think I know when the preferences.xml can be corrupted - it happened to me recently when I was closing about 6 Inkscape instances at the same time - maybe they all tried to write to preferences.xml at the same time. The result was additional, unnecessary /inkscape> at the end of the file.
I think I know when the preferences.xml can be corrupted - it happened to me recently when I was closing about 6 Inkscape instances at the same time - maybe they all tried to write to preferences.xml at the same time. The result was additional, unnecessary /inkscape> at the end of the file.