On 9/20/20 12:46 PM, [email protected] wrote: > BTW, on my Mac I have Lyx v. 2.3.1-1. My coauthor has 2.3.0!!! > Curious, isn´t it? A regression?
Again, it's just a guess, but I think this might have been a 'stale' lockfile. It got left behind at some point so Dropbox is confused. That's why the file seems like a 'normal' file somehow and you're being asked if you want to delete it. Riki > > > On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 1:43 PM <[email protected] > <mailto:[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] <mailto:[email protected]> > > > On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 1:33 PM Paul A. Rubin <[email protected] > <mailto:[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] >> <mailto:[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] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users > >
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