On 30/07/2017 19:13, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:
If you use dropbox, can't you just put ALL the files there and edit
from there?
The feature I am talking about does the work for you. When the machine
works for you, you win. The machine is your friend.
Look at the following scenario. Alice and Bob are using dropbox to share
a LyX document and Alice is making a plot. She keeps producing different
versions of the file and puts them in the folder "./Pictures" (that you
know and love so much!).
As she keeps producing more versions of the picture she has cluttered
the folder with unnecessary files. After one day is time for clean-up.
Now she has to find all the files that are actually used in the file and
delete those that are not.
What I normally do is to rename the folder "Pictures" so that LyX
complains it cannot find the source file and then I replace one by one
the files I am really using. This slow and painful.
I am _sure_ you have smart way of doing the same with a script, git, and
some other exotic tool that every granma knows how to use from the time
of World War II, but has ever occurred to you that all this work is just
entirely spared if you use a file format that internally saves all the
used external files?
PS
I think the example of GIMP layers is a great example to exaggerate the
situation.
