I tend to use TextWrangler for such tasks (available for free in Apple store). Plenty of options to select encoding and line breaks etc so it suits your needs.
/Anders > On 28 Jan 2015, at 12:02, Restidealist <restideal...@gmx.de> wrote: > > TL:DR: Document corrupted, want to copy parts from [corrupt document] to > [working document] - textedit doesn't work > > Hi everybody, > > my thesis-document (due in 2 days) is corrupted. As I can't figure out how to > fix this I want to try a manual approach: > I got my corrupt file with all the latest contents and I also got a backup of > a working file. > I now want to copy parts from the corrupt file to the backup file to see > where things don't work out anymore and maybe fix this within the corrupted > file. > I would also like to edit within the corrupt file which isn't possible in lyx > as it quits saying "File corrupt" > > When I'm opening the .lyx file with textedit, I am able to edit it but after > reimporting / reopening it with lyx, preview doesn't work. I suppose textedit > changed something in formatting etc. > > So which program can I use to open a .lyx file, edit it, save it as .lyx, > open it IN lyx and preview it without producing an error message? > > Any help is appreciated, thanks a lot > R. > > Specs: > Lyx 2.0.4., also tried 2.1.2.2., file obviously still corrupted > Macos 10.6.8. > everything worked fine until today.
