BTW, on my Mac I have Lyx v. 2.3.1-1. My coauthor has 2.3.0!!! Curious, isn´t it? A regression? Julio Rojas [email protected]
On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 1:43 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Paul. On my Mac the error does not appear. I would check back on > my Windows computer to see if I find this file hidden in the folder, as I > cannot see it on my Mac (I can see it for another file that is currently > opened by my coauthor in a Mac). > > Regards, > Julio Rojas > [email protected] > > > On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 1:33 PM Paul A. Rubin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 9/20/20 12:27 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: >> >> >> The file #DCHT_2020_v5.lyx# looks like some kind of lockfile or tracking >> file that Dropbox writes (maybe hidden), though that's only a guess. Hence, >> moving the file would remove that thing. It's possible that saving it >> didn't work because Dropbox thinks it's open on another machine. >> >> Riki >> >> >> On 9/20/20 12:03 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> >> I have three computers, each with a different OS (Linux, Windows and >> MacOS), and have only seen this problem in Windows and in this file. I >> created a folder within the folder of the original file, created a copy, >> modified it, resave it and the error again appears. I am going to switch to >> my MacOS computer to see if the error appears. >> >> Julio Rojas >> [email protected] >> >> >> I can confirm that the #...# file is a lock placed by Dropbox to avoid >> collisions. That said, I've never gotten a message from Dropbox telling me >> it was deleting the lock file. >> >> Paul >> -- >> lyx-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users >> >
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