[tde-users] Kate won't remember syntax highlighting

For some time a quirk in Kate has been haunting me. Kate seems unable to remember my syntax highlighting selections.

This happens with two different user accounts on two different computers.

I have Kate configured to store meta data for 180 days. Browsing the meta data file finds all affected files are stored and the 'Highlighting=' key is correct.

As soon as I launch Kate the highlighting is plain text and the meta data file 'Highlighting=' key is empty.

Deleting the meta file and starting from scratch has no effect.

I don't use KWrite and can't offer any related observations.

Any ideas?

Thanks. :)